Opinion

What has mercy got to do with the general elections?

Our society is deeply polarised, and there is nothing like an election campaign to bring out the worst in us when it comes to hostility towards people we disagree with.

How surviving cancer shaped my music and my faith

Christian Today spoke with gospel artist Sarah TÃ©ibo to hear more about how her faith carried her through a frightening cancer diagnosis and how her experience has shaped her music and her relationship with God.

Human rights and the moral debate about abortion

If human life starts at conception, then what exists in a woman's womb is not part of her body but another human being, and neither her right to bodily autonomy nor anyone else's desire to bring the pregnancy to an end can override that human being's right to life and the moral obligation to respect this.

Numbers 13-15 and how not to spy out the Land

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the spies who were sent out to explore the Promised Land and what we can learn from them today.

Whatever happened to 'family values'?

There was a period of time in the 1990s when it was popular for politicians to talk about 'family values'. The voting population was often surveyed to discover their relative ratings of political parties' support for these beliefs. But this concern seems less common in recent times. What happened?

Remembering our 'forgotten servants' at sea

Almost two million seafarers face danger every day to keep our global economy afloat. But are Christians doing enough to support our 'forgotten servants' who deliver more than 90 per cent of the goods we rely on?

The joy of sharing the word one to one

"Why has no one shown me this before?!" How often I hear this, comment as I share the Gospel for the first time. In its dismay, I suggest we should realise afresh how clearly and how powerfully God's Word continues to speak today.

Pride and Catholic schools

It is not the business of the state or of left-leaning unions to overturn Catholic ethics, virtue and vision to enforce their own decadence.

The children of Sudan have been forgotten

We must also let people know that, even in some of the most difficult living conditions I've ever witnessed, there is hope.

Can the Church of England afford same-sex blessings?

The staggering picture of the C of E's financial decline in the Diocesan Finances Review Update, circulated to Synod members ahead of their July meeting, comes as the C of E's bishops seek approval for their plan to allow standalone services of blessing for same-sex couples to go ahead on an experimental basis.