The Mayor of London recently endorsed the pro-choice movement in holding a counterprotest against the March for Life UK when it took place in London earlier this month and, at the time, gave assurances of his support for buffer zones around abortion clinics to stop the "harassment" of women using these facilities.
Beyond the inevitable bust up, the deeper attraction of it all was the fuel it provided to mock others, to enjoy a sense of superiority over them and ultimately to issue judgement over the type of people they were. It took a death to stop all of this.
The Israel Folau case has shown that everyone is welcome in rugby as long as they "toe" rather than "cross" the line.
Fear of offending Muslims has reached such heights in this country that self-censorship is becoming the norm but we must be free to question and to voice our concerns, whether it is about Islam or any other religion.
Christians are the new revolutionaries in our post-truth 'hate-speech' society.
There are probably more people with mental heath illnesses in your church than you even realise.
At this moment in the UK, there is a real danger of a cultural divide becoming a cultural chasm. So could you make the first move in reconciliation?
Despite society changing, the way Christians talk about men and women hasn't significantly moved on.
If I had a penny for every time someone posted or shared something offensive to Christians on social media, I'd have a lot of pennies.
Nothing yet has seemed to illicit a response from the Vatican on abuse and violence within the Catholic Church. However, this week, the period of radio-silence ended with the publication of Vos estis lux mundi.
We must not allow our eschatology (theology of the end) to prevent us from fulfilling the creation mandate to be good stewards of the good earth in the present.
