Opinion

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  Out of the darkness: Is the secularist faith in decline?

  We hear a great deal about the decline of the Church and the decline of the Christian faith in today's West. But I wonder if we are also seeing something else – the decline of the secularist faith.

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  Crazy golf in cathedrals: a tool for mission or compromising the sacred?

  Writer and theologian Ian Paul considers whether cathedrals should be used as playgrounds.

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  Dear Joshua Harris, my heart aches for you in so many ways

  It seems that you thought that Christianity was a series of formulas. Formulas for marriage. Formulas for systematic theology. Fear of choosing the wrong formula. Fear of failing to live up to your formula.

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  Some serious doubts about the new identification of biblical Ziklag

  Why is it that not everyone is convinced this town is indeed Ziklag? After all, no one disputes the date of the original Philistine and Israelite settlements.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Genocide in Nigeria: does anyone care?

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