Opinion

What's the most precious thing in your life?
It's worth asking questions like this when everything is in total upheaval.

Where is God in a coronavirus world?
This is the stirring title of the new book from Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox. He talks to Christian Today about why there's no easy answer to suffering and pain, but there is always the promise of a God who is with us.

Is coronavirus helping you repent?
We don't like unexpected intrusions into the routine of our everyday lives, do we? Such disruptions can be unsettling, painful and discomforting. The key thing is: how do we then react? And is it the right response?

The antidote for despair
The book of Revelation ends by telling us that the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations. Where are those leaves?

Covid-19 lessons from a British missionary to China
With our schedules being emptied there is much work to be done, chiefly on our knees.

Nigeria's Christians are being silently slaughtered
In your prayer and conversation please remember the martyrs of Nigeria, and refuse to shroud this slaughter in silence.

The challenge and blessing of home educating children
A homeschooling mum speaks to Christian Today about the difficulties and rewards of educating children at home, and what advice she would give to families plunged into it for the first time because of coronavirus.

The one weapon to re-balance your soul if coronavirus is leaving you irritated
I'm normally the person who smiles a lot, tries not to complain and is usually very gentle. But now, the things I would normally let pass me by are irritating me.

What does the Book of Revelation say about Covid 19?
It won't be long before someone is publishing an End Times book, showing how Revelation prophesied Covid 19 and how it is a sign of the End. I don't believe that â in fact I regard that as an irresponsible use of Scripture in direct defiance of John's warning at the end of this book, not to add anything to his words. But there are basic principles which, like the warning in Revelation 8, make this apocalyptic book a real revelation for us in our crisis.

What does the fall in church weddings really mean?
In 2017, just 23% of couples in England and Wales chose a church or other place of worship for their wedding according to the Office for National Statistics. As a bald figure, the statistic is certainly striking, but what lies behind it?

If you're struggling to find hope, remember what God has already done
God seems to work in unexpected ways.

Walking faithfully with G-d when life doesn't make sense
No matter what situation we are in, G-d has something to teach us.

The Leviticus miracle in the coronavirus crisis
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis there was a miracle that we all saw but hardly recognised, because it was eclipsed by the larger story. All over the world, for more than two weeks, people in every nation practised two-thirds of Leviticus 32:1, when they rose up, figuratively, before the grey-headed and honoured the aged.

For people with disability in developing countries, coronavirus threatens even more hardship
There are fears that the impact on developing countries with few resources and little in the way of healthcare or welfare will be devastating, and for those living with disability, even more so.

The coronavirus crisis is cloaking a most diabolical plan
As our country continues in lockdown, the euthanasia lobby is working busily to change the law on assisted suicide on the island of Jersey. If it succeeds, the resulting contagion would prove more deadly to the vulnerable on that Island than coronavirus ever will. And it won't stop with Jersey.

The four horsemen of the Covid apocalypse
When the world is facing a deadly plague which is often conveyed in such apocalyptic terms, it seems unnecessary to add yet another article to the plethora of doomsday writings flooding our screens. But now that we are several weeks into the Covid 19 pandemic perhaps there are some general patterns we can discern and warnings we can heed.