"Across the UK, eight million people currently live in substandard housing, 800,000 people are in overcrowded households and one in five households face real difficulties in paying their mortgage or rent", writes the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Bishop of…
"Just because we're in the middle of a crisis, it doesn't mean that we can't have a vision for a future where justice and righteousness are the key stones of…
When Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell mooted imposing a four-day week on the British economy (that is, a four-day working week; Labour has no plans to re-calibrate or 'modernise' the solar…
This is a guest post by Carl Jacobs. _______ In the name of Ecumenical comity, I have decided to give over my column this week to His Most August Personage,…
We have another trailer for the emerging ideology of Corbynomics. Jeremy Corbyn has said there should be a law to establish a maximum wage, because it is "the fairer thing…
Christian Concern have published a neat little booklet called 'What's wrong with Islamic finance' (download HERE), which summarises the origins, aims and purported problems arising from Islamic finance in the…
"So enthused by @JeremyCorbyn4PM win today," tweeted the Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser, on hearing of the victorious re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. "The world is…
Brexit is greatly to be feared. At the mere possibility of the UK leaving the EU, the markets are in turmoil: shares have slid, sterling has slumped, and money…
HMP Littlehey is a 'Category C' men's prison ("Those who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape") and Young Offender Institute near…
The Evangelical Alliance has been surveying Evangelicals. 1,730 of them, to be precise. And it transpires that four out of five of them think government policies to tackle extremism…
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his…
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?…
There's that classic moment in Monty Python's Life of Brian when the People's Front of Judea, during their meeting to discuss the overthrow of the accursed Romans, end up getting into…
The Christian think tank Theos has quite a remarkable knack of producing reports that are both thorough and of an incredibly high quality. I've repeatedly covered their work over the last few…