Opinion
Why go on pilgrimage?
The modern world allows us to fill every minute with distractions. A few days, mostly out of mobile range, with the only concern being what to have for lunch, soon changes that.
Healing or curing: what's the difference and why does it matter?
What comes into most minds when you mention this word is someone jumping out of a wheelchair and dancing, or throwing their crutches away and running around an auditorium. But healing is much more than that.
Sri Lankan tragedy â prejudice, politicians and the press
In Christchurch it was a mosque that was attacked. In Sri Lanka it was 'places of worship' and 'Easter worshippers'.
It was a culture of impunity that enabled the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka
Religious intolerance has been on the rise in the country since 2000 and especially since the end of the civil war in 2009.
Celebrating the true diversity of our white-washed saints
The stories of Christian saints are often told with little or no reference to their origins, ethnicity and cultural heritage.
Notre-Dame, Folau and Christians who don't know what they believe
Sadly, there are Christians who don't know what they believe. At the same time, those that do are condemned.
The Death of Death
Forget all the romantic images. The Cross is so ugly that even the most hardened turned their faces away. The cruelest form of death that not even Mel Gibson's Passion could show the full extent of the horror.
Flying tankers and a rush for answers: a lesson from Notre-Dame
Like the 45th President of The United States of America, I sometimes find myself facing someone's situation or confronted with another's problem and before I can help it, I've blurted out some unsolicited, unnecessary advice.
Why the argument for equal marriage undermines itself
The use of the term 'equal marriage' by both secular and religious campaigners for same-sex marriage reflects the force that arguments based on the principle of equality have in British society and across the Western world as a whole.
What has Pentecostalism ever done for Christianity?
The last one hundred-plus years have seen Pentecostal and Charismatic expressions of Christianity surge around the world challenging downward trends in so-called developed western countries.
After the fire, Paris is a city in grief but also in worship and praise
The outpouring of song and prayer has been unlike anything I have ever witnessed in France.
Folau, Vunipola and the intolerance of the culture of tolerance
Whilst not denying the provocative character of Folau's original post we should not miss the way that these events have exposed the concerning nature of a 'New Colonialism' that holds sway in our society and increasingly in sport.
Fleabag and the flawed, handsome priest
The notion that a 20-something-year-old in the "prime of their life" would want to give up sex is an idea that is alien to a lot of people.
Notre-Dame: the cross still stands
Hope amid the rubble: surrounded by damage, devastation and the broken hearts of a nation, a cross remains standing and unscathed in Notre-Dame, Paris.
Censoring the internet â A plea from John Milton
The danger with State (or corporate) censorship is that inevitably we end up excluding much that is good, as well as the bad.
The black hole and the cross
The black hole is an image that has a wider significance