Opinion

If ever we come together to pray ...

I am convinced that prayer, alongside gracious love in action, is what we need right now.

Ending tax breaks for schools: should Christians object?

All who privately educate are propping up the state system. They should be thanked, not taxed.

Jesus is the king the populist can never be

Ahead of the US elections it is important to remember where our ultimate allegiance and identity lies and how we can be easily led astray.

Lord, may your kingdom come in North Korea

If discovered, North Korea's Christians are dealt with as if they were terrorists committing treason.

Dealing with hurt from a pastor's moral failure

Do you remember the first time in your life that someone you looked up to as a spiritual leader had a moral failure? I do.

We all want to die with dignity, but does the Assisted Dying Bill really give us that?

This is a hugely emotive subject. Many of us â me included â have personally experienced the suffering of loved ones from cruel and degenerative diseases, and of course we long to take this grief away. But we will not make better laws if each side digs into a tribal trench and starts hurling abuse at the other.

The John Smyth case: could a 'duty of candour' have saved more boys from harm?

Would the serial abuser John Smyth have been exposed in the 1980s if Church of England clergy had been required to report evidence of abuse?

Thoughts on October 7th

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel.

How William Tyndale gave us the modern English Bible

6th October is the day when William Tyndale is remembered. This is the story ...

Vaughan Roberts on why Christians around the world must stand together against the sexual revolution

Vaughan Roberts, rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford, and co-director of the Alliance movement of traditionalist Anglicans in the Church of England, recently attended the Lausanne 4 Congress in Incheon, South Korea, where he called on churches in the West and the Majority World to unite in opposing the sexual revolution. Christian Today spoke to Rev Roberts about why he felt this was an important message for Lausanne, and his hopes for the UK.

The little known story of Thomas Harding â the last Lollard martyr

Thomas Harding was the last Lollard to be executed for heresy, before the creation of the Church of England. This is the story ...

James Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission

Of the many who worked as missionaries in China in the 19th century, one whose work had a particularly enduring character was James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM), which was responsible for taking over 800 missionaries to China.