Opinion

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  As Boris Johnson is summoned to court, we should all be worried

  When you have one rule for the rich and another for the poor, it's not justice.

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  How can the church communicate God's love to people who have 'switched off'?

  As a pastor, I'm only too well aware that fewer and fewer people, particularly young people read the Bible today, and so I'm constantly looking for ways to communicate the sense of purpose, hope and love that they would find in it.

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  What would a Christian conversation about transgender look like?

  A combination of ignorance, prejudice, dogma and hysteria from some quarters and on all sides of the debate, mixed with social media, is a toxic brew. But as Christians we should be able to do better.

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  From King Saul to milkshakes in a few hundred words

  The Israelites found out the hard way that it wasn't really a king they needed.

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  Does God really love you when the hard times roll in?

  Sitting in the cold, sterile doctor's room, the words, "We found a 5cm tumor and it's either cancer or lymphoma" left me bewildered.

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  Why God uses trees as a metaphor

  The metaphor God uses throughout the Bible more than any other might surprise you: trees.

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  10 challenges that pastors face - and church members need to be aware of

  The challenges are not the members themselves, but the capacity to meet all the pastoral needs members have.

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  War, what is it good for?

  Not all war is wrong. Granted, war always tends to produce greater evils than those which precipitated its cause. But to argue all war is wrong – to say that there is absolutely nothing good about it – just isn't true.

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  A forgotten voice in the Alabama abortion debate

  The goal of the new, strict Alabama abortion law is to potentially overturn Roe v. Wade. The law would penalize abortion doctors, and it contains no exception clauses, except for the life and health of the mother.

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  Why did Jesus heal?

  When we look at the healing stories with 21st century Western eyes, we miss so much.

• Prime Ministers come and go but God's faithfulness remains

  Psalm 46 is a hymn of praise and assurance that God is with us now and we can be completely confident about the future even when Prime Ministers resign and Brexit chaos abounds.

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  Go West: is the American Church the answer to the UK Church's problems?

  We need to consider how much the UK church is influenced by the US – and how much of that influence is a good or bad thing.