Opinion

David Cameron's delightful but confused Easter message

Three cheers for David Cameron! Or should that maybe just be two? Actually, on reflection, would one be enough â okay?

Girls are being forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan, but because they are Christian nobody cares

An estimated 1,000 Christian and Hindu girls are falling victim to forced conversion each year in Pakistan

What constitutes a just war?

Just war theory demands rightful authority, proper intention, a just cause and proportionality.

Don't let Jesus's death on the cross lose its power

Social media can be awash with too much information about a certain event in the Church calendar

Mozilla and Brendan Eich's resignation: Why it sets a dangerous precedent

The resignation of Brendan Eich represents a dangerous precedent for society at large.

Britain 'a Christian nation': is Eric Pickles right?

Militant atheists should accept that Britain remains "a Christian nation" and "get over it," according to government minister Eric Pickles.

Firefox fails the tolerance test: We're free but it may cost us our jobs

It is depressing is to see how the equality, diversity and tolerance brigade manage to twist and turn in order to justify their unequal, monocultural intolerance.

Taking the Bible at its word: Some thoughts on Steve Chalke's evangelicalism

The historian David Bebbington has identified four marks of evangelicalism, Biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism and activism, so where does Steve sit with each of these?

The Church must not let the State shape its understanding of right and wrong

It is so disappointing that the Archbishop of Canterbury seems to have accepted the law on gay marriage, but we need to believe that the core assumptions of society can be changed and that we, the Church, have divine power to demolish strongholds

Planning God into our towns and cities

If we want to avoid soulless urban sprawl, perhaps the Government and planners would do well to consider that as well as a railway station, each community needs a church?

Shakespeare may highlight the human condition, the Bible offers the solution to it

They may reveal an uncanny "understanding of the human condition", I would question whether Shakespeare's works inspire hope for the lost in the same way that the Bible does.