Opinion

The Church of England is losing young people - and fast
The Church of England is losing young people - and fast

Might that indicate that the push by revisionist bishops to ditch the Church's traditional teaching on marriage and sexual morality is not persuading young people to join C of E churches?

Bearing burdens for Jesus like Nehemiah
Bearing burdens for Jesus like Nehemiah

The burden the Lord has asked you to carry won't kill you, but quitting on God just may.

In today's post-Christian Britain, Poirot has lost his faith
In today's post-Christian Britain, Poirot has lost his faith

Why won't the likes of Cameron and Branagh leave Christian Britain alone and create their own institutions and characters?

We need more than simplistic slogans for complex issues like Gaza
We need more than simplistic slogans for complex issues like Gaza

Christians need to be people who press the hard questions. They should not just go along with the mantras of surrounding society.

What progressive Christians get wrong
What progressive Christians get wrong

Progressive Christians, intent on enforcing equality in the church, instead sow division.

Living in a world that's lost its reason
Living in a world that's lost its reason

I was talking to a friend about the challenges that we Christians face today when he said, 'We are swimming against the current – the world has lost its reason.' The phrase struck me and I've been pondering it.

Cass Review shows children have been failed by medical and social 'transition'

It is not true that you may be born in the wrong body. It is not true that you can change gender. It is not true that puberty-blockers will help children. It is high time we stopped telling children these things.

Scotland's destiny and the rewriting of history
Scotland's destiny and the rewriting of history

Orwell's 1984 is more and more sounding like a handbook for Western 'progressive' society in the UK.

Pesach's survival story is relevant for today
Pesach's survival story is relevant for today

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the survival of Israel and what this has to do with Pesach - or Passover.

Resisting oppressive hate crime laws will come at a cost
Resisting oppressive hate crime laws will come at a cost

Feminists in Scotland are closing ranks against the SNP's new hate crime law, but how will orthodox Christians fare under the regime?

Dawkins and 'cultural Christianity': what does it all mean?
Dawkins and 'cultural Christianity': what does it all mean?

Dawkins' admiration for "cultural" Christianity is not new. What has changed is the dawning realisation of how much we have lost.

Paganism has colonised the Church
Paganism has colonised the Church

In many churches the faith 'once delivered to the saints' has become little more than an antiquarian curio.

How the Easter message shaped Western values
How the Easter message shaped Western values

Values such as tolerance, charity and human rights are often considered secular beliefs of the modern world, independent from any religion, especially the Christian faith that once infused the countries where these values were born.

Leaning on God when His people disappoint
Leaning on God when His people disappoint

Christian Today speaks with worship leader Natalie Runion about her experience of 'church hurt' and what Christians can do to support those who have had similar experiences.

What is good about Good Friday?
What is good about Good Friday?

Good Friday is when Christians remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus. But what is good about Good Friday?