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Martin Davie
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Why the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury may prove challenging
The deep divisions within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion over the issue of human sexuality mean that it will become very difficult, if not impossible, to find someone everyone can agree on.
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How should we understand the relationship between God, free will and the Fall?
God has seen the future, and it is good.
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Does God change his mind?
I want to suggest that there are three reasons why we should say that the answer to this question is 'No.'
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Was the failed assassination of Donald Trump an act of God?
In considering these claims that God acted to prevent Donald Trump being assassinated, we must first be clear about what it means to say that something is a miracle.
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Why the Archbishop of Canterbury needs to think again on Israel and the International Court of Justice
To put the matter most starkly, while the archbishop has repeatedly deplored the Jewish Holocaust in Europe during the twentieth century, what he is calling for runs the danger of setting up the conditions for another such Holocaust to take place in this century.
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Would a third province undercut the ecclesiology of the Church of England?
The Bishop of Oxford claims it would, but I disagree.
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A Christian view of government
The UK recently elected a new government in the General Election, raising the question of what, from a Christian perspective, governments are for. What is their purpose?
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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.
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The Israeli hostage rescue and Christian just war theory
Blaming the Israelis is like blaming the Allied forces rather than the Germans for the 35,000 civilian casualties in the Normandy landings in 1944.
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A Christian view of suicide and assisted suicide
Because assisted suicide must thus be regarded as a breach of the sixth commandment, Christians are under an obligation to refuse to engage in it themselves, and to refuse to help other people to perform it, in the same way that they would refuse to engage in other acts of unjustified killing.
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Learning from hymnody
Newton's words, and the classical Christian theology underlying them thus provide us with a great promise. However, they also provide a great challenge to us and to other people known to us. The challenge is whether we really are members of the city of God.
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Accompanying them with singing: a Christian reflection on the theology and practice of funerals
Christian must object to, and protest against, the practice of a cut price 'direct cremation' which is currently being regularly advertised on television.
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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.
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Why are there so many different religions? A Christian answer
If the evidence shows that the earliest religion of humankind was monotheism based on direct divine revelation, then why is there the diversity of religions and philosophies that we see today. What happened?
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Is there a biblical case for making reparations for slavery?
The issue of whether reparations should be made for British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade has come to the fore again.
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