Opinion

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  Harari's hypocrisy and why Christians can be just the same

  Harari has fallen prey to the temptation of so many Christian preachers and prophets. Rather than just say the Word of the Lord to the culture, we are tempted to adapt the message, rewrite the Bible and proclaim it in such a way that will not offend and will ensure us a hearing.

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  We at the Bruderhof have stumbled upon a way of life that works

  Once money is taken out of people's lives, there is room for so much more.

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  Exodus 32:14 and what we can learn about audacious prayer from Moses

  Time and time again in the Bible we see prayers in the same vein – quoting God's promises, quoting scripture and yelling at Him about the unfairness of a situation.

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  Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan brought down hardline religious party

  It is time for everyone to be made accountable under the law.

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  A UK Christian charity crosses the pond to help Americans in debt

  Christians Against Poverty has been working through churches to help people in debt since 1996. Now it is opening up its first centre in the US to help even more people there.

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  Buzz Aldrin's moment with God on the moon

  What was the first meal on the moon? It may surprise you to know that it was bread and wine in a one-person celebration of the Lord's Table.

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  That Bachelorette sex talk and what it says about Christianity in the West

  There are some wonderful programmes on TV that make you glad to be a human being – and there are others that make you understand why the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

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  Abortion and the arbitrary exercise of raw political power

  Once constitutional safeguards are swept aside, the legislative process becomes little more than the arbitrary exercise of raw political power. When this happens the rule of law is abandoned, writes SPUC's Liam Gibson

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  Why religious freedom is becoming a pressing global issue

  World leaders are finally paying more attention to religious freedom, violence against minorities by both state and non state actors and how the lack religious peace is a growing threat to peace and economic development.

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  Will they ban the Bible next?

  Or declare it as hate speech?

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  What does Judaism have to say about abortion?

  As we are all created in G-d's image, a newborn is sacred, whatever their mental or physical faculties, and the rights of both mother and father to be parents are important.

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  Record drug deaths in Scotland – a national scandal

  Every early death, like that of Karen McDade who died in Dundee aged 43, is a tragedy for that person and their family. Sadly, an increasing number of families in Scotland are affected by these tragedies.