Posts under ‘News’

The Rev Dr Williams has done it again.
No comments from me, but a pointer to the actual text – What He Said since in all the reporting, that often seem quite hard to get to.
A very helpful analysis by David Field – Meet your new god – who argues that this is just an explicit [...]

There has been wide coverage of the Prime Minister’s recommendation of presumed consent for organ donors.
I will side-step the question of whether such ‘consent’ is genuine or not because a different question bothers me.
I am amazed by the number of people who are prepared to stand up for the right for people’s wishes to be [...]

We thought it would be good to end 2007 on a positive (albeit slightly late) note, by flagging up the results of a recent (last month) survey on prayer conducted by Tearfund.
According to the survey (based on a representative sample of 2000):
Of the 42% (20 million) of UK adults who pray, 13 million pray at [...]

Last week I had the benefit of hearing a presentation by Christian Concern for Our Nation and wanted to bring their good work to the attention of anyone who happens to read this site.
I was very challenged by the way that over the last few decades in the UK we have enabled our faith to [...]

In many respects we want to cautiously applaud the news of the letter written by Muslim scholars to the Pope . Greater understanding between faiths must be a good aim, and in particular an end to violence would be welcomed.
Two observations.
Given the disparate nature of Islam, it is questionable how much impact such a [...]

The recent woes of Northern Rock (and to a certain extent the earlier panic in the USA) seem to be related to the state of the ‘Sub-Prime Mortgage’ market. ‘Sub-Prime’ seems to be something of a euphemism for ‘mortgages for people that can’t really afford them’ and as the BBC’s investigation seems to indicate, [...]

What a pleasant surprise to find ourselves in agreement with the Archbishop of Canterbury for once! Whilst the arguments around the establishment of the Church of England are complex, if the monarch is to remain the titular head of the Church, that only makes any sense if it is an exclusive claim. Of [...]

There is no denying Harry’s popularity as ‘Book 6′ breaks all sales records.
And amongst certain branches of Christianity the debate seems to rumble on about whether or not Christians should be reading about ‘witchcraft’ and the like (a really good summary article of both positions here).
But having finished reading The Deathly Hallows yesterday, and also [...]

According to the recent High Court ruling, a school girl was not discriminated against when she was Banned from wearing a ‘purity ring’.
I think that this was a good result.
As Christians we are called to live in submission to the earthly authorities, except when to do so would be in contradiction with the clear command [...]

It was nice to see The Guardian, not usually slow to attack anything to do with evangelical Christianity, publishing a positive piece by Jonathan Aitken about the ‘problems’ at Wycliffe Hall.
Aitken seems to place some of the exaggerated newspaper claims in context, and in particular to suggest that they largely boil down to a ‘personal [...]