Opinion
Redefining marriage: a step too far
In climbing onto the LGBTI+ bandwagon, the Methodist Church has displayed not just its abandonment, but its essential contempt, for the tenets of Christian belief, as taught by Christ and enshrined in the Bible from page one.
Lessons from the past for the Christians of today
Today the UK is arguably not a Christian nation in any truly meaningful sense. What to do about that? Panic? Bemoan modern society? Demand the government defend our Christian culture? The world of Sutton Hoo offers us both a challenge and a warning.
The double standards of the pro-abortion movement
For a movement whose primary argument is that a humane society shouldn't throw women in jail for brave and difficult decisions, the abortion lobby really does prescribe a lot of jail time for women making brave and difficult decisions.
Redemption: a gift of G-d or man?
The idolatry that has grown up around football since 1966 is an indictment of our age, in which our religious leaders no longer lead, and football has simply filled in the gap.
As we celebrate NHS Day, what does it mean to care?
Reflections on the pandemic and beyond from a Christian care home.
People who are grieving need the Holy Spirit, not spiritualism
Most spiritualists are simply misguided individuals struggling to cope with unresolved grief, believing that they can once again speak with their loved ones.
Methodism? Dead. Anglicanism? Not yet
Anglican evangelical leaders should take heed from the example of the Methodist mess.
Should the Bishops of Manchester and Liverpool resign?
The Bishop of Manchester's comments on Matt Hancock's affair are troubling but I feel rather more concerned by the Bishop of Liverpool.
When even secular commentators can see the moral imperative, why can't the bishop?
Matt Hancock's hypocrisy was certainly wrong, but it wasn't the biggest wrong of the whole debacle. Committing adultery on your wife must surely rank higher.
Is Islamophobia rampant in Scotland?
We have the opportunity to speak the truth in love to our Muslim neighbours. Let us pray that our politicians don't make this a hate crime.
Bringing light to the children hidden by the pandemic
It's been easy for families to hide behind closed home doors, for parents to paint on a pixilated smile on a Zoom call in the face of domestic violence, empty food cupboards or mounting debt. In these situations, it is often the needs of vulnerable children that go unmet, because they are so much harder to identify.
Chinese Communism at 100: alive and well, but could Christianity be its ultimate undoing?
This week, China celebrates 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party. But do not be fooled by the skyscrapers and consumer goods. A hundred years on, China is still a communist nation. And its leaders still hate Christians who refuse to bow to their ideology, writes Dr David Landrum.
The benefits of radical amazement
What is needed is a combination of the childlike (but not naïve) approach to the beauty of life.
Sorry kids, no crisps or chocolate, but sex is fine
We all want the nation's young to be protected from damaging temptation and kept healthy, don't we? But why, in this climate of obsessive, and often excess, concern for safeguarding, are there not similar fears for other, potentially even more damaging, areas of harm?
A 'gender neutral marriage canon' for the Church of England?
Bishop Bayes and his supporters might not succeed with their gender-neutral marriage canon in the new Synod, but they could get what they wish for post-2026.
The pandemic has been a missed opportunity for the Church
If the churches were seriously committed to the welfare of our neighbours in general, why did they not speak up on behalf of those being killed by lockdown?