Opinion

The Church has something distinctive to say about climate change - if only it would say it
Just when we have the answers to the questions that the world is answering, it appears that so much of the Church, including some evangelicals, have got caught up in the solutions that the world is offering.

The sacredness of our Christian ruins
A little known chapel changed the fate of the cluster of settlements which would one day become the great northern city of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Why I fear our loss of values more than I fear climate change
Driven by politics and self-interest, any attempt to change society will not be successful so long as we don't see changed individuals.

As greenhouses gases continue to soar, what might God be saying?
To have any chance of winning the climate battle, we need the help of the One who called all of life into being.

Eschatological beliefs do not justify environmental inaction
Some current end-times teaching has led to passivity in the face of global challenges, writes Martyn Whittock.

The paradox of Halloween
When so many people want just comfort and pleasure in life, why engage with a public festival at the end of October that courts horror and death?

Under the thumb of Stonewall for too long, the BBC must now restore its impartiality
For some organisations, the penny is finally beginning to drop.

Sing for the freedom of Leah Sharibu and others like her
The universal prayer of all Nigerian parents is that their children will be better than them, but for Nathan and Rebecca Sharibu that prayer has now become for Leah to come back home.

What is the future for evangelicals in the established Church?
Christian Today speaks to Ben John about his election to General Synod as an Anglican evangelical who wants to defend the traditional biblical teaching at this crunch-time for the established Church.

The question of religion and public benefit
Stephen Evans, CEO of the National Secular Society, has asked to respond to a recent analysis of its report, "For the Public Benefit? â the case for removing the advancement of religion as a charitable purpose", produced by David Robertson on behalf of Christian Today. Mr Evans' response is published here in full in the interests of public debate around this important issue.

Vaccine passports in Australia: when segregation becomes the law of the land
It is personal choice that must be protected if we are to be the people God has called us to be.

How the Church can stand in the gap as social care fails
The need to distance has been removed now, and it's an opportunity for churches to step up their help.

Life beyond LGBT
Matthew Grech, who used to be gay, and former trans Libby Littlewood speak to Christian Today about why it's so important that ex-LGBT voices are heard too.

The Queen and her Christian faith
The strange paradox is that the Queen's virtues are admired on all sides, but stripped of the recognition that they are profoundly Christian in character.

'Manifesting' might be the latest Gen Z craze but the Church has its own version too
The New Age concept of 'manifesting' - thinking something into being - is not so different from the idea of 'name it and claim it' popular in some corners of the Church.

The steady erasure of 'women' in the pro-abortion movement
Airbrushing 'women' out of gendered existence by subordinating them within a broader group of "pregnant people" is both morally repugnant and insulting.