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.…
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Who on earth would book Katie Hopkins for a Christian conference?
The Church and Media conference has been running in various guises for the last 39 years. Not many people know it exists, but that is because it has aimed to serve Christians involved in the media, who are both a brave…
A Christian approach to immigration cannot be simply opening the doors to everyone
One of the handful of joys that blogging brings me is the opportunity to get to know a lot of people who have a similar interest in the relationship between religion and politics.…
No more excuses: Bishop Peter Ball's abuse demands more than regret
If we need any evidence of humankind’s fallen sinfulness then we only have to look at our propensity to do things for our own gain that we know to…
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…
Corbyn's moral mission for a kinder, more inclusive politics
A bit doddery and oafish, Jeremy Corbyn stumbled and stammered through his first Conference speech like a 1950s grey-bearded puritan. He was robed in a bright red tie, though…
As 40% of adults think Jesus is a myth, has Religious Education failed?
Richard Dawkins and the other prophets of atheism love to tell us that in the fabricated battle between religious belief and rationalism, there can be only one winner, and…
Does God suffer?
There's an awful lot of suffering and badness around. Nasty people do nasty things, and wicked people do worse. There are floods, droughts and earthquakes, which are no-one's fault;…
We need more Christians in politics – and banking, education, media…
Another of Justin Welby’s visions has begun to bear fruit. Yesterday, Lambeth Palace hosted the launch of the much-heralded Community of St Anselm. In a special service in the…
Corbyn courts the churches, but Labour loathes Christianity
Can you imagine what it must be like to be a Labour MP at the moment? It’s like the scruffy kid at school who doesn’t make friends easily and…
A National Register of Faith Leaders? Government plans to vet all ministers of religion
There was an odd article in the Telegraph last week. Odd because the headline, photograph and content didn't quite cohere. Andrew Gilligan has apparently got hold of a leaked…
Assisted Dying: Canon Rosie Harper condemns "extreme and emotive claims" of "a certain section of believers"
The Archbishop of Canterbury couldn't be any clearer: 'MPs must not take risks with the lives of vulnerable people', he writes in the Evening Standard. He is unequivocal, too,…
Without Christianity at its heart, the next Coronation will be empty ritual
In the week when Queen Elizabeth II reached a momentous landmark in her reign, it does feel rather inappropriate to be talking about what will happen once she is…
Tweeting the truth in love: Justin Welby affirms an unpalatable article of faith
We have a blogging, vlogging and tweeting Archbishop of Canterbury. He's on Flickr, too. Justin Welby has fathomed that the medium is the message: the social network is the…
"God told me to.."
Have you ever had a Christian say to you: "God told me to..", followed by a directive or (more usually) a subtly coercive exhortation to do something (usually) for…
Married at First Sight? Channel 4 make marriage a throwaway commodity
Over Channel 4’s 33-year history there has been a whole range of programmes which have found their way into the nation’s hearts. Where would many of the older generation…
Christians in Parliament demonstrate what doing God really means
On Wednesday evening Christians in Parliament along with Christians in Politics and Christians in Government held their annual service of prayer and worship at the the Emmanuel Centre in…
Does any Labour leadership candidate have something positive to say about Christianity?
Now that the Liberal Democrats have been left to their own devices to elect a new leader, the attention inevitably turns to Labour and their continued attempts to find…
The greatest weapons against ISIS are grace and truth
As our nation falls silent at midday on Friday we will mourn with those who mourn and hold in our thoughts and prayers those who lost their lives in Tunisia…
Norman Lamb's tactics prove only Farron deserves to be LibDem leader
By this weekend 61,000 LibDem members should have received their leadership ballot papers. It’s a straight shootout with the prize of either dragging the party back from the precipice…