Opinion

When Christ stood in Trafalgar Square

There, with London's traffic rushing by, pigeons coming in to land, and tourists snapping photographs of each other, Christ stood unobtrusively. Standing, you could say, at the door of our consciousness, and asking to be let in.

JK Rowling vs Harry Potter stars and the Supreme Court

For Radcliffe, Grint and others, this was a matter of compassion. Of understanding. Of enlightenment. It is high time, they would say, to move beyond the bigoted, hurtful, small-minded views of the past. But all the compassion in the world doesn't change reality

The significance of statues

I'm not comfortable honouring those whose wealth and worth were tied up in the misery and humiliation of others. I'm also not comfortable with crowds of people taking matters into their own hands to take down those statues they're not comfortable with.

Time to end the silence on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria

Inaction thus far is already a blight on the conscience of the international community. It is past time for that inaction to end.

The Government is right to be re-thinking gender self-identification

In these days, when extreme ideology seems all too often to trump a calm consideration of facts, the Government's U-turn on gender self-identification is most welcome.

Disability-selective abortion says some lives are worth more than others: this must stop

The overall figures for those aborted due to disability have risen in the last year, but even more worryingly, these abortions have often been for minor disabilities and disfigurements. I have friends old and young with some of these conditions, and it fills me with horror that they could have been aborted just for being different.

J K Rowling and the Deathly Hallows of the Culture Wars

It's embarrassing for us as Christians that a children's novelist is braver and more of a prophet than many church leaders.

Parents must act now on RSE before it becomes compulsory in schools

Children from the age of four will be taught what schools think they should learn about...

The tax system needs urgent overhauling so that everyone pays their fair share

Everyone has the right to benefit from society, and everyone has a responsibility to contribute to it.

Why I won't/will bend the knee

Racism is a sin. But I won't be taking the knee - and I won't be joining the BLM marches. Here's why.

Lessons from older Christians after a lifetime of prayer

Sometimes it's easy to pity older people, those who have lost some of their physical or mental function and appear to spend their days in slumber. But they are not to be pitied as useless and unable to contribute. These are the people who have uttered prayer after prayer after prayer for the world the rest of us now inhabit - prayers which empowered them in one of the most trying times in generations.