Opinion
As knife crime soars, who's got young people's backs?
Our communities too often feature those wayside shrines to those who have had their lives ended early in what feels like an unstoppable cycle of violence.
As a new poll claims to show widespread support, what's wrong with assisted dying?
Where's the drama in someone saying, 'Actually, I think I'll just let nature take its course'?
Why banning controversial voices from universities is bad practice
Two years ago the University of Cape Town (UCT) "disinvited" Flemming Rose from giving its annual T.B. Davie Academic Freedom Lecture. Rose is the cultural editor of the Danish publication, Jyllands-Posten that depicted the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons.
The 'cult of relentless negativity' really hacks me off
It's putting the worst possible spin, the bleakest interpretation, on the motives and actions of others â while presenting ourselves as the enlightened ones, the saints and heroes, who alone can see things clearly.
Are Christian leaders more likely to commit sexual sin?
Why do so many fall? And, if we're honest with ourselves, what kind of weaknesses lurk within our own souls?
Just how guilty is Islamic State bride Shamima Begum?
There is, indeed, a case for saying that young people of a certain age are not really responsible for their actions.
Mangrove theology: Get stuck in and put down deep roots
God calls his people to put down deep ecological, social, economic and spiritual roots wherever he's placed them.
Christians and the pursuit of perfection: How can we talk about real things better in church?
How do people in seemingly perfect churches admit that their lives are messy and difficult and very imperfect?
A special place in hellâ¦.and the road to heaven
Hell is not, as far as I would see it, other people. Hell is the absence of others, the absence of friends and companions, and of God.
Is assisted suicide now homicide in the Netherlands?
Officially, the Netherlands is a safer country to live in than the United States. Its gun homicide rate is about 4 percent that of the United States, and its official murder rate is less than one-fourth that of the United States.
The humanity of the unborn should be obvious to everyone
No matter what ideologues say, we all know (or at least once knew) that abortion involves killing unborn babies.
Conservatives are not relativists: Yoram Hazony and a conservatism built on sand
To defend something rationally is to set out reasons for why it has features that are deemed to make it true and good.
Bishops always say they're listening: are they listening to us about transgender?
Those of us who have signed this new open letter humbly hope that the details of what we set out within it may now be truly heard.
How dare Karen Pence be a Christian!
Because Mrs. Pence helps out at a school with biblically-Christian standards, there has been a near-hysterical breakdown in the media.
Trump, Brexit and human sexuality: Are we to be doomed by intransigence?
Simply repeating the same rhetoric over and over again is not likely to unlock any deadlock or move people nearer to finding a solution that is acceptable to the majority.
Darwin and God: How modern science backs Christian teaching about the origin of evil
What if rather than offering an alternative explanation for evil, evolutionary science is actually providing empirical evidence for a doctrine of revelation?