Opinion

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  North Korea and the Christian case for nuclear disarmament

  Less than six months ago it seemed almost inevitable there would be a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

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  Tearfund: People power is key to a plastic-less future

  Let's keep putting the pressure on government and business to bring about changes that will benefit us all – people and blue planet alike.

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  Alfie Evans: Why are people campaigning to keep him alive?

  Sometimes, fights like this have happy endings – and it's these happy endings that keep hope alive.

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  Israel at 70: 5 stories, from Haifa to Jerusalem

  Irene Lancaster writes celebrating 70 years of the state of Israel.

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  There is nothing to celebrate this St George's Day: Englishness has become toxic

  Has the nation really changed, and what do we mean by nation anyway?

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  Words are not enough: Why fighting antisemitism is about more than proclaiming universal love

  Luciana Berger is the MP for Liverpool Wavertree. In the House of Commons' antisemitism debate she recounted her story – a history of family members killed and exiled because they were Jewish, and a personal experience of the most vile abuse from people in this country and in the United States.

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  Ecclesiastes 8: How to live in a corrupt society

  Unless you live in the privileged world of the privileged you have to face up to the question of how fallible fallen human beings are to live in a corrupt society.

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  A bizarre claim India invented the internet has troubling parallels for Christians

  Now we know: it wasn't Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the internet, but ancient Indians thousands of years ago.

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  Israel Folau: Heretic or hero?

  Folau upset the apple cart when in response to an Instagram user who asked him: 'What was God's plan for gay people?' he replied, 'Hell... unless they repent of their sins and turn to God.'

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  Syria airstrikes: Why I find Iraq flashing before my eyes

  Despite the PM's reassurances, I find Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya flashing before my eyes.

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  Ecclesiastes 7: Are men wiser than women?

  Solomon, who had 300 wives and 600 concubines – contrary to the command of God and despite his wisdom and good start as king – might have been expected to know something about women.

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  When a Man Sets the Record for the Fastest Marathon by a Woman

  The Boston Marathon (among other marathons) has announced that men who identify as women can compete with the women. I'm not questioning the fact that some men believe they are really women (and vice versa). I'm simply stating the obvious: These men are not biological women, and it is not fair for a biological male to compete against a biological female.