Opinion
A time to die? Why I believe in the right to choose
Don't tell me that the time of someone's death is purely God's business. That at the moment when all a human soul wants is for it to end, God stands at the end of the bed and says: 'No my child, it is my will that you suffer just a few more days.'
If cannabis is legal, does that make it right?
Evangelical Christians, historically mouthpieces for the so-called 'war on drugs' in America since at least the Ronald Reagan administration, have gradually quietened down about cannabis as it becomes slowly legalised across the US.
These Muslims gave Christians a Christmas gift â and went to the heart of the gospel
Look back on 2017, and one of the most alarming things about it has been the rise of the far right.
A Christmas based just on Mark's Gospel â challenging, but it could be done
Back when I was in pastoral ministry I developed the habit of preaching through the Passion story using one Gospel at a time, and going all the way through Lent up to Easter.
Can the secular media ever understand religion? Why it's harder than it looks
What often seems to be lacking in how religion is spoken about in the secular media is any sense of how it's actually experienced in the lives of believers.
The politics of Christmas: How to listen to the unheard story
How you hear a story depends on what type of story you think you are hearing. You might also say that how you hear it depends on what you are looking for from the story.
Martyn Percy: Why the Church's response to the George Bell inquiry is so shocking
"If one imagines for a moment that Bishop Bell were one's own father, the point is clearly made. If a system is not good enough for our own fathers, then it is not good enough for anyone." (para. 46, p. 12, Bishop George Bell Independent Review).
Sarah Mullally, like Justin Welby, is no theologian. The CofE is losing its nerve
It could be argued that the appointments of Justin Welby, hailed for his experience in the oil industry but a bishop for less than two years when he was translated to Canterbury, and of Sarah Mullally, a former chief nursing officer who has been a suffragan bishop for two years before her translation to London, represent a failure of nerve in the Church of England.
Bishop Bell has been denied justice and the Church should admit it
Lord Carlile's review contains a damning catalogue of flawed practices and misjudgments which should be specifically addressed in the interests of integrity.
George Bell will be vindicated in spite of the Church of England
It is not a Macavity cat archbishop or a diocese struggling to escape a terrible reputation for failing to handle sex abuse that will vindicate Bell but history.
Why outsourcing your intelligence to Alexa is bad for the soul
Alexa happily provides simple answers to even the most thorny of questions.
Roy Moore and the day my evangelicalism died
Liberal theology didn't kill my evangelicalism â evangelicalism did that all on its own.
Defining unity: What makes Anglicans Anglican anyway?
The ordination of nine men into the new 'Anglican Mission in England' (AMiE) has highlighted divisions not only over sexuality but also different ideas of what it means to be genuinely 'Anglican'.
What does Roy Moore's defeat say to evangelicals?
In the normal way of things, an election for a random US Senate seat would be of very little interest in the UK.
Why it's time to put 'We Three Kings' (and some other carols) in the bin
What a load of nonsense is written in some Christmas carols.
Why Tim Farron's wrong: There are shared values and they matter
'Liberalism is eating itself.' With these widely reported and reviewed words a fallen Party leader â Tim Farron of the Liberal Democrats â has opened a debate over the future of faith and state in our post-Christian society.