Opinion

For disabled people experiencing hate, the Church offers little refuge
For disabled people experiencing hate, the Church offers little refuge

The church is giving a disproportionate amount of time to just two characteristics of the Equalities Act, and virtually ignoring some of the others such as race, age and disability.

What if life doesn't have to be pain-free to be full?
What if life doesn't have to be pain-free to be full?

As the rest of the world waited expectantly for midnight to usher in the new year I sat by my sister' bedside willing time to stand still. She was dying at just forty-four.

Was Pascal right about God and belief?
Was Pascal right about God and belief?

Pascal's Wager has become a notorious reason to believe in God but science is starting to back up his idea that what we do makes a difference to what we believe

What's the point of a yet another new translation of the Bible?
What's the point of a yet another new translation of the Bible?

The Rev Henry Wansbrough OSB, the editor of the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, reflects on challenges and casualties of translating the Bible.

Churches, where is your Athens?
Churches, where is your Athens?

People are receptive to the Gospel but the Church needs to find the spaces to communicate it effectively, says pastor and blogger David Robertson

Is Justin Welby a 'Cultural Marxist'?
Is Justin Welby a 'Cultural Marxist'?

The Archbishop of Canterbury isn't advocating 'Cultural Marxism' but cultural sensitivity, which is a wholly different sort of thing.

We need to have a Word
We need to have a Word

In our eagerness to make ourselves heard, we continue (with most of Church history) to forget that Scripture asks only that we proclaim and obey it.

Genocide in Nigeria: does anyone care?
Genocide in Nigeria: does anyone care?

International law is clear: when something is a genocide, it is appropriate to act. No more excuses.

Harari's hypocrisy and why Christians can be just the same
Harari's hypocrisy and why Christians can be just the same

Harari has fallen prey to the temptation of so many Christian preachers and prophets. Rather than just say the Word of the Lord to the culture, we are tempted to adapt the message, rewrite the Bible and proclaim it in such a way that will not offend and will ensure us a hearing.

We at the Bruderhof have stumbled upon a way of life that works
We at the Bruderhof have stumbled upon a way of life that works

Once money is taken out of people's lives, there is room for so much more.

Exodus 32:14 and what we can learn about audacious prayer from Moses
Exodus 32:14 and what we can learn about audacious prayer from Moses

Time and time again in the Bible we see prayers in the same vein – quoting God's promises, quoting scripture and yelling at Him about the unfairness of a situation.

Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan brought down hardline religious party
Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan brought down hardline religious party

It is time for everyone to be made accountable under the law.

A UK Christian charity crosses the pond to help Americans in debt
A UK Christian charity crosses the pond to help Americans in debt

Christians Against Poverty has been working through churches to help people in debt since 1996. Now it is opening up its first centre in the US to help even more people there.

Buzz Aldrin's moment with God on the moon
Buzz Aldrin's moment with God on the moon

What was the first meal on the moon? It may surprise you to know that it was bread and wine in a one-person celebration of the Lord's Table.

That Bachelorette sex talk and what it says about Christianity in the West
That Bachelorette sex talk and what it says about Christianity in the West

There are some wonderful programmes on TV that make you glad to be a human being – and there are others that make you understand why the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abortion and the arbitrary exercise of raw political power
Abortion and the arbitrary exercise of raw political power

Once constitutional safeguards are swept aside, the legislative process becomes little more than the arbitrary exercise of raw political power. When this happens the rule of law is abandoned, writes SPUC's Liam Gibson