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Martin Davie
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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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CPAS and the problem with opposing so-called 'conversion therapy'
When people come to their church leaders and say that they want help in remaining faithful to their marriage, or in knowing why and how they should reject the pressure from their friends at school, are church leaders really supposed to simply tell them that they are on their own because no help will be forthcoming?
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Making sense of conversion
Christians need to ignore the current criticism from sections of the press and from politicians and continue to do what they have always been called to do.
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Thinking rightly about abortion
Christians need to be prepared to stand up and say that abortion is morally wrong. However, Christians cannot stop there. There are three other things they have to do.
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Christian theology and identity politics
The dominant take on what is happening in the Middle East is unbelievably simplistic.
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Understanding the miracle at the heart of Christmas
In the miracle of the virginal conception, human striving and activity are set aside in favour of the activity of God to signify the truth that human beings cannot save themselves.
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The theological significance of Christmas movies
Criticisms of Christmas movies are entirely fair, but I want to argue that, for all their shortcomings, movies in this genre do in fact point us towards two extremely important theological truths that we all need to hear.
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Is a ceasefire in Gaza the right way forward?
This means that, instead of putting pressure on Israel, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others need to urge the international community to concentrate on putting effective pressure on Hamas.
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Why having children is a good thing
Antinatalism is currently a fringe position, but it is worth considering seriously because fringe positions have a nasty habit of sometimes becoming mainstream.
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Why we can yet believe that we shall overcome
As Tolkien put it in The Lord of the Rings a day is coming when 'everything sad is going to come untrue.'
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Israel's assault on Gaza and Christian just war theory
The seven just war criteria give us a Christian framework for determining whether war is being waged justly.
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A Christian response to our secular world
Christians should challenge those who hold to a secular worldview as to whether they really want to believe in a world without God.
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