Opinion

Not well with my soul: Is the best really yet to come?
Can we be well, even if He does not take our pain, even if He does not heal us, even if He does not intervene in our suffering?

How parenthood impacted my relationship with Christ
Nothing can prepare you for the way a new little person impacts your heart, soul and strength.

News through a mother's eyes: Why the media doesn't have the last word
As I read the difficult news stories, I need to remember that this isn't the end of the story.

'Theodicy Beyond the Death of God': Church decline and the 'evangelistic impatience'
Dr Irene Lancaster reviews Andrew Shanks' latest book, 'Theodicy Beyond the Death of "God": The Persisting Problem of Evil'

Ecclesiastes 10: The Stench of Folly and the Perfume of Christ
David Robertson continues his series looking at the biblical book of Ecclesiastes.

Lessons from the Bible on Roseanne Barr's sacking
Roseanne Barr's tweet is a walking, talking object lesson in the truth of what the New Testament says: 'Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body'

How Michael Curry's sermon revealed the 4 tribes of evangelicals
One of the biggest surprises of That Royal Wedding sermon is the way that is has shown up the fault lines within evangelicalism in the West.

Why Tax Justice is a mission imperative for today's church
The increasing inequality in our world is surely an affront to a God who makes it clear all human beings are his children and deserve 'an equal sharing of the things that earth affords'.

What the hounding of David Lammy says about race in the UK
It's been an interesting few weeks for David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham.

Women, men and complementarity: The awkward questions raised at a hardware store
The 2018 THINK conference is about to make gender a hot topic. Andrew Wilson, a London pastor, trailed the conference as a chance to rethink the theology of women and men.

Michael Curry's sermon: Why the critics don't get it
We use the expression 'captive audience' rather lightly. It's not really a good thing to be a captive.

As Ireland decides whether to relax abortion law, there is nothing progressive about voting 'Yes'
Sadly, we live in a culture in which if someone gets in your way, if their existence threatens your way of life, your prosperity, your future, your plans, then you can simply dispose of them.

The Royal wedding: How it distorted the gospel for the whole world
It seemed that, apart from a few curmudgeonly old-style republicans, everyone was on board.

Windrush and the Royal wedding: Why we need to complicate our national story
We've been celebrating a royal wedding in which it's clear that, in the service, a definite move was made to recognise and incorporate black or mixed-race identity into the heart of the establishment.

The Royal wedding: How it preached the gospel to the world
And Christians have a particular reason to be deeply grateful that this wedding was what it was, where it was, and led by who it was.

Royal weddings and lady bishops â time for a change?
Both Ms Markle and Dean Faull are women making history this year â breaking new ground and heading into uncharted territory.