Man shall not live by broadband alone
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has pledged to deliver free fibre broadband to every home and business in the country by 2030. "What was once a luxury is now an essential…
Poverty and Exclusion
Child sponsorship: giving children the power to choose their sponsor is nearer the kingdom of heaven
"It's a new thing a missionary priest started last term. You send five bob to some nuns in Africa and they christen a baby and name her after you. I've got six black Cordelias already. Isn't it lovely?" Evelyn Waugh…
‘Hatred is not needed to stamp out evil’: Martin Luther King (Jr and Snr) remembered 50 years on
Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, one of the greatest figures of 20th-century America. Inevitably there will be much discussion of his legacy…
Bishop of Liverpool urges Christians to vote Conservative
It was a very, very subtle exhortation tweeted by the Rt Rev'd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool. So subtle, in fact, as to be (he would insist) a totally undetectable…
Calais unaccompanied refugee children: Welby grills and Government blathers
Question: "To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to speed up the reuniting of refugee children in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk with their families in…
TGI Monday: Is a church without a disabled person a disabled church?
What is disability? Is there such a thing as a disabled church? What are invisible disabilities? What is inclusion? What is access? How complete are the able-bodied? Many disabled…
Foodbanks will achieve much more if we stop seeing the government as the problem
If you need any insight into the realities faced when running a foodbank, look no further than the Lalley Centre as featured on Sister Rita to the Rescue all…
The fight against modern slavery has a new hero
When we consider the way that Christians have been at the forefront of combating the scourge of slavery, the name that quite rightly springs to mind is William Wilberforce.…
Corbyn and charisma: where there is no vision, the people get no credit
There’s no denying that Jeremy Corbyn has a curiously charismatic air about him. If he had not scraped into the Labour leadership contest, would we have seen those tens…
The social gospel is a legitimate child of evangelism
"I am so tired of hearing this social gospel held up as the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. The reason the Church pushes this social gospel is because by…
Calais migrants may not "break in" to Britain
It was an unfortunate, though, quite possibly, purposeful juxtaposition on the BBC News website. On the left, we read that dozens (actually thousands) of migrants are drowning in the…
Swarm, flock or multitude, Christ walks among the Calais migrants
"This is very testing," admitted David Cameron. "I accept that, because you have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come…
Bishop of Willesden accuses George Osborne of bringing back workhouses
You can understand the despair in the House of Bishops. Not only did the Conservative Party win an outright majority in the 2015 General Election, but Labour is in…
The best way to eradicate child poverty is to measure it justly
Back in 2007, David Cameron had a laudable but quite unattainable vision to ‘make British poverty history’. He failed, of course, just as Gordon Brown failed before him, because…
It's time to put the bedroom tax to bed
If you select any of the government’s welfare cuts since 2010, it’s more than likely that there’s been a bishop or two who have opposed them. Remember the Bishops’…
Evangelical Alliance spins its own research to attack Government over poverty
The recent report from the Evangelical Alliance on attitudes to poverty has caused something of a storm in a teacup. The press release accompanying the launch stated: Evangelicals have…
Welby: £3 billion worth of church social action is proof of God's power
Christians are good at telling stories but rubbish with numbers. This was one of the key observations at last night’s Cinnamon Faith Action Audit Report launch which presented the…
An open letter from a disabled Christian to Conservative voters
This is a guest post by Tanya Marlow - a disabled Christian and founder of Compassionate Britain, and author of Coming Back to God When You Feel Empty. She was formerly a lecturer…
We must fight harder for vulnerable, abused and neglected children
This is a guest post by Dr Krish Kandiah – President of the London School of Theology and founding director of Home for Good, a new fostering and adoption charity.…
Sentamu: Jesus would pay the living wage (despite His disciples being unpaid interns)
It is not a divine intervention into the General Election campaign. Even less so is it an episcopal exhortation for the faithful to cast their votes for a particular…