This is what a feminist theology looks like
Is this really what a feminist looks like? A feminist politician, perhaps. The men in particular feel compelled to humour this particular cause of equality, and so they don a tacky T-shirt sporting a...
View ArticleWelby tells politicians: "seek to do right" (no coded political message)
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby preached earlier this week at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, at a service to pray God’s blessing upon the new Parliament. It was attended by MPs, peers...
View ArticleThe revelation of Justin Welby's real father does not change nothing
“Justin Welby. What a bastard,” wrote a communicant of this blog, in a rapidly degenerating comment thread of the sort the Bishop of Buckingham insists ought to be censored: “..if you build a...
View ArticleWise unto salvation: the Christ in Shakespeare
William Shakespeare died 400 years ago today, on St George’s Day, at the age of 52, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. His was the greatest English mind ever to have existed. Sir Henry Irving...
View Article“We have built our tower to the Moon, and now we build it to Mars. What,...
This is a guest post by Carl Jacobs: a Christian by grace, a Calvinist by conviction, an American by birth. Husband of one, father of two, an engineer by profession, proudly possessed of a military...
View ArticleThere will be sex offenders in heaven (and they may be greater in the kingdom...
You really don’t want to commit a sex crime in the United States. Unlike other crimes, a sex crime creates certain civil liabilities for the offender that can quite literally last a lifetime. Unlike...
View ArticleWe need to make more space for silence
High School student Jack Higgins has a severe form of autism which makes him hypersensitive to noise. His graduation rite of passage was looking to be an impossible occasion, with vast crowds of...
View ArticleConversion Therapy: is the Government about to ban prayer?
Conversion Therapy is variously understood, but essentially defined as the practice of attempting to change someone’s (or one’s own) sexual orientation, usually from homosexual or bisexual to...
View ArticleFight or flight? The falling man of Afghanistan has haunting echoes of 9/11
They aren’t stupid. They scramble beneath a US military aircraft and cling to its wings and wheels in the hope of escaping the coming Taliban terror. It is fight or flight – quite literally – and they...
View ArticleLiz Truss: “I share the values of the Christian faith”
In a few weeks the United Kingdom will have a new Prime Minister. On current polling, it looks as though Liz Truss will be invited to kiss hands with the Queen and asked to form a government. She will...
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