Opinion

What to do when God sends your black daughter a white husband
What to do when God sends your black daughter a white husband

What to do when God sends your black daughter a white husband

How male headship undermines our freedom in Christ
How male headship undermines our freedom in Christ

If you've grown up in a conservative Christian home, especially in America, there's a good chance that you were told that the man has the primary calling in the family.

Guns and church: Why, in spite of everything, they don\'t mix
Guns and church: Why, in spite of everything, they don't mix

Anyone who comments on affairs on the other side of the Atlantic – in either direction – needs to do with considerable humility.

The hidden factor behind modern massacres (and it\'s not Islam)
The hidden factor behind modern massacres (and it's not Islam)

Talk of a religious war is misguided. Almost all recent terrorist attacks have been committed by individuals using mind-altering drugs

A Woman\'s Place review: Katelyn Beaty cuts through the destructive narratives about working women
A Woman's Place review: Katelyn Beaty cuts through the destructive narratives about working women

In A Woman's Place, Katelyn Beaty calls for us to embrace work outside the home as something that's amazing, fruitful and can bring glory to God.

The former Goddard inquiry: Is it time for victims to trust the system again?
The former Goddard inquiry: Is it time for victims to trust the system again?

The Goddard inquiry into institutional child abuse, as we must get used to not calling it any more, has been beset by problems since it first started.

Extreme fasting: How trying to do what Jesus did could literally kill you
Extreme fasting: How trying to do what Jesus did could literally kill you

Ndlovu, 44, died not because he couldn't get enough food to eat but because he believed he was following in the footsteps of Jesus.

Wayne Grudem says Trump is \'morally good choice\' – but is he right?
Wayne Grudem says Trump is 'morally good choice' – but is he right?

What's galvanised comment about Grudem's position, however, is his statement that voting for Trump is "a morally good choice" for evangelicals.

Summer holidays are a privilege that many families will never be able to afford
Summer holidays are a privilege that many families will never be able to afford

I live on an estate in the inner city and summer holidays for most people there mean something very different

Tim LaHaye and the end times: What should we believe about the end of the world?
Tim LaHaye and the end times: What should we believe about the end of the world?

Tim LaHaye co-authored Left Behind, which influenced millions of Christians' understanding of the end times.

Naming and Shaming - the Named Person Debacle
Naming and Shaming - the Named Person Debacle

Why did Christian organisations take the government to court over the Name Person scheme?

The Laudato Si\' generation: Why World Youth Day gives me hope for the future
The Laudato Si' generation: Why World Youth Day gives me hope for the future

"Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded."

Do all religions really want peace? Why Pope Francis was wrong
Do all religions really want peace? Why Pope Francis was wrong

Telling the world that Islamist terror is not fundamentally a war between Islam and Christianity is a good and necessary thing to do.

The blood of the martyrs: Why the death of Fr Jaques Hamel mustn\'t be wasted
The blood of the martyrs: Why the death of Fr Jaques Hamel mustn't be wasted

The attack is the latest in a growing list of atrocities on European soil.

Radical hospitality: Why we\'re called to love in the face of terror
Radical hospitality: Why we're called to love in the face of terror

Among these attacks, there seems to be a worrying pattern emerging when you look at the profiles of some – but definitely not all – of the perpetrators.

Independence Day? How a Crisis of Compassion brought us Brexit

Brexit is a cause not for nationalistic celebration and triumph, but for nationwide soul-searching, which should include a strong note of lament and repentance.