Opinion

• The pain that transitioning can't heal

  "I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am" - Andrew Long Chu, a man currently fundraising to transition to a woman

• America's still in - climate, the US, and the evangelical church

  The rest of us can overcome climate change together without America, but it'd be harder.

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  The idea of a male God is deep-rooted – but wrong

  When an archbishop says, 'God is not a father' it's as if the faithful reply: 'Of course, father. You're absolutely right, father.'

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  The tragedy of murdered missionary John Allen Chau: Some questions

  It's impossible to look at a photograph of John Allen Chau, the young American killed by tribespeople on North Sentinel Island, without sadness.

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  A working toilet could mean freedom for Dalits in India

  Manual scavenging is not as much a career choice as it is a birth curse.

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  The problem with transageism

  You knew it had to happen sooner or later. After all, if a biological, chromosomal male who identifies as female can have his birth certificate changed to female, why can't a 69-year-old man who feels like he's 49 have his age legally changed?

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  Leadership (with a small 'l'): The gift the church has to share with the world

  With a lack of moral leadership in the US together with a lack of political leadership in the UK, the 'sleepwalking' and 'leaderless world' described by Gordon Brown recently doesn't sound so theatrical.

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  Brexit Britain: What is God saying to the UK?

  Is God speaking clearly to Britain as it grapples with ongoing divisions and warnings of potential catastrophe in the run-up to leaving the European Union?

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  Remembering well: Why the church has to embrace the pain of the abused

  Our Eucharistic heart should make church a good, safe, and healing place to do all sorts of remembering.

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  A hundred years after the end of WWI, what should we be saying on Sunday?

  In recent years, even though there are no combatants left, Remembrance Day, marking the actual anniversary of the signing, has gained in importance – with two minutes silence being observed in many places.

• From sea to stinking sea? America's verbal cesspool

  'O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain...' So begins one of the best loved patriotic songs in the United States, 'America the beautiful'.

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  Donald Trump, morality and amorality

  Maybe I shouldn't be shocked by a world leader sidestepping an inconvenient truth.