Opinion

Teaching English, sharing the Gospel

William Bradridge, founder of Christian TEFL, talks to Christian Today about how churches are using English language lessons to support refugees and asylum seekers, and share the Christian faith.

Is your school celebrating Pride in June?
Is your school celebrating Pride in June?

Please pray for our children and our schools, as many pupils will be introduced to sexual themes and age-inappropriate content and teaching this month.

Why sending refugees to Rwanda should make you angry
Why sending refugees to Rwanda should make you angry

What's wrong with the plan? Almost everything.

Why words are so important when it comes to talking about gender
Why words are so important when it comes to talking about gender

Our world is becoming a deeply confused world, a dangerous world where words have no meaning and life becomes meaningless.

Becoming Braver
Becoming Braver

Claire Musters speaks to debut novelist and committed Christian Deborah Jenkins, whose book Braver is being published by mainstream publisher Fairlight Books.

The last Jubilee of the United Kingdom?
The last Jubilee of the United Kingdom?

There is a very real possibility that this will turn out to be the last jubilee celebrated in the United Kingdom.

Lessons from the Jewish concept of the Sabbath of the Land
Lessons from the Jewish concept of the Sabbath of the Land

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on how the key Jewish concept of Shemitta (Sabbath of the Land) and Jubilee can reboot the world and set us all free.

What Jesus teaches us about helping people with their mental health
What Jesus teaches us about helping people with their mental health

Jesus calls the church, his community of healers, to show love and empathy to those battling with their mental health.

The importance of friendship in dementia
The importance of friendship in dementia

Experts are increasingly seeing the importance of increased social contact and communal activities in preventing and treating dementia.

Andy Hawthorne on taking the Gospel to Manchester in both word and deed
Andy Hawthorne on taking the Gospel to Manchester in both word and deed

The Message Trust CEO speaks to Christian Today about his hopes for the largest Christian mission to be held in north-west England in a generation and why in all his years of ministry, he's never seen the UK so open to the Gospel.

Why are so many UK Churches heading for extinction?
Why are so many UK Churches heading for extinction?

Mathematician and researcher Dr John Hayward speaks to Christian Today about why so many UK Churches are facing extinction and whether anything can be done to turn this crisis around.

Indoctrination, intimidation and the new ideological witch-hunts
Indoctrination, intimidation and the new ideological witch-hunts

It is beyond irony that at the same time as the Scottish government is apologising for witch-hunts in the 16th Century, they are enabling witch-hunts against women seeking to protect their own gender and spaces today.

Applying the wisdom of Augustine to the abortion and transgender debates
Applying the wisdom of Augustine to the abortion and transgender debates

In a fallen world we will always be tempted to make a decision because it feels right rather than because it is right.

Playing Jesus
Playing Jesus

The Life of Christ actor James Burke-Dunsmore speaks to Christian Today about playing Jesus for nearly a quarter of a century and what is so special about this role.

Elizabeth II\'s 70 years as head of the Church of England
Elizabeth II's 70 years as head of the Church of England

While Defender of the Faith has been, over the years, an inherited title and little more, Elizabeth II embraced it and made it her own.

What the Early Church said about abortion
What the Early Church said about abortion

The pro-life position is easily deduced from the pages of the Bible. But when we look to writings of the early Church leaders, their condemnation is even more direct and forceful.