Opinion

Moby-Dick is still essential reading in today's godless age
Moby-Dick is still essential reading in today's godless age

Herman Melville's classic is a fascinating and challenging exploration of the G-d who is so elusive, the G-d who works in mysterious, unfathomable ways.

Abortion law change will remove vital protections against coercive abortions
Abortion law change will remove vital protections against coercive abortions

Unless an Executive is reformed in Northern Ireland on Monday 21 October 2019, vital protections will be removed from women protecting them from coercive abortions - protections which women in England will continue to enjoy.

Black children are the least likely to be adopted: this needs to change
Black children are the least likely to be adopted: this needs to change

There is something the Church can do to resolve the heartbreaking problem of black boys languishing on the adoption waiting list.

Three questions church leaders need to ask before saying yes to a short-term mission trip
Three questions church leaders need to ask before saying yes to a short-term mission trip

Any visit to an exotic location will have some element of adventure and sight-seeing, but if that appears to be the primary purpose, then I'd suggest that you don't support the person.

Every Christian is a saint, faults and all
Every Christian is a saint, faults and all

We may not make the national news, but God sees every Christian as a saint.

Four women and a Brit: the Catholic Church's newest saints
Four women and a Brit: the Catholic Church's newest saints

While the focus of the weekend's canonisations was understandably on Cardinal John Henry Newman, four women were also made saints.

All hail the new sexual and gender ideology
All hail the new sexual and gender ideology

While secular society has effectively abolished any concept of 'taking the Lord's name in vain', or blasphemy against God, it has replaced it with a secular equivalent: speaking against the now sacred name of contemporary sexual and gender ideology.

The day my wife was arrested
The day my wife was arrested

Yes, my wife and I could both write letters to our politicians (we have done). But when our prime minister is someone who mocks climate protesters as "uncooperative crusties", and at the same time promises to loosen some of our environmental legislation once we leave the EU, in order to satisfy US trading terms, I'm not sure that just writing letters is dramatic enough.

Exorcism and the law: faith groups need robust procedures to protect children
Exorcism and the law: faith groups need robust procedures to protect children

Exorcism-related child abuse is child abuse, plain and simple.

Millions are suffering needlessly from treatable conditions because they can't afford the healthcare we take for granted
Millions are suffering needlessly from treatable conditions because they can't afford the healthcare we take for granted

When my wife went into labour two months early, she received the care she needed in hospital free of charge and today we have two beautiful twin boys. But around the world, millions are not so lucky and they are suffering, often for their entire life, because of it.

Emotional women, rational men: why I'm coming out as binary
Emotional women, rational men: why I'm coming out as binary

At the risk of being labelled a transphobic bigot, I might just revert to the Bible's crazy idea that there is such thing as male and female

Parents need to exercise their rights to challenge RSE lessons
Parents need to exercise their rights to challenge RSE lessons

Parents have a right under the new law to know what is being taught in RSE and to be consulted on it and they should use this to query the content and push back against anything they find objectionable.

Does the Hong Kong protest have a prayer?
Does the Hong Kong protest have a prayer?

If China lived by Romans 13, using the power of the state to punish evil-doers, perhaps there would be no such protests. The problem is who China defines as evil-doers.

How many more Lord Singhs will the BBC lose in the name of political correctness?
How many more Lord Singhs will the BBC lose in the name of political correctness?

There are entire groups of people that institutions in this country are attempting to placate at every step of the way but Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, and believing Christians are not among them.

What is spiritual abuse?
What is spiritual abuse?

Spiritual abuse needs to be defined, and defined well, so that people can be better protected within our faith communities.

Women, gender roles and the Church: what does the Bible have to say and why does it matter?
Women, gender roles and the Church: what does the Bible have to say and why does it matter?

Can women and men both lead - or are they designed for different roles? This is the question that Katia Adams seeks to answer in Equal, her new book published by David C Cook.