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Fantastic Memes and Where to Find Them, Part 2

Drew Wilmot Thu 16 Aug 2018 11:01 BST

Shooting down a quotation doesn't necessarily prove anyone right or wrong, but the gripe is with people who victoriously parade such quotes like placards of objective truth.

Vue Cinemas pays out for cancelled 'gay cure' film

Christian Today staff writer | Thu 16 Aug 2018 9:46 BST

The film Voices of the Silenced was due to be shown to an invited audience of 120 people at the Vue Cinema in Piccadilly in February.
Newspaper editorials across US rebuke Trump for attacks on media

Reuters | Thu 16 Aug 2018 9:13 BST

The Boston Globe organised the editorial push, which was joined by the New York Times and a number of smaller newspapers.
Operation Noah film highlights why climate change is a faith issue

Christian Today staff writer | Wed 15 Aug 2018 14:20 BST

Christian charity Operation Noah has launched an animated film designed to help Christians around the world recognise the human cost of climate change.
Fantastic Memes and Where to Find Them, Part 1

Drew Wilmot | Wed 15 Aug 2018 10:59 BST

'An appeal to authority' involves quoting someone more famous or more intelligent than yourself as though that proves the point you're trying to make.
37 confirmed dead in Italy bridge collapse, sparking national anger

Reuters | Wed 15 Aug 2018 9:38 BST

The 50-year-old bridge collapsed during torrential rain on Tuesday, sending dozens of vehicles crashing onto a riverbed, a railway and two warehouses.
Why run a half marathon just 2 months after finishing breast cancer treatment – in Bethlehem?

Christian Today staff writer | Tue 14 Aug 2018 15:39 BST

Just two months after she'd finished chemotherapy for breast cancer, 49-year-old Su McClellan was taking part in a half marathon.
John Smyth victims slam 'cynical and disingenuous' Titus Trust apology

Christian Today staff writer | Tue 14 Aug 2018 13:54 BST

Smyth died on August 11 at his home in Cape Town after a heart operation. He was exposed as having carried out vicious beatings on young men he groomed through Iwerne.
Laughter lines: How a Christian comedian is tackling the 21st century's search for meaning

Christian Today staff writer | Tue 14 Aug 2018 10:57 BST

For years I was just a comedian who wanted to see people meet Jesus without ever really joining the dots in my own career. Now I'm trying to use my comedy to help them do just that.
Australian archbishop begins home detention over sex abuse cover-up

Reuters | Tue 14 Aug 2018 9:29 BST

A former Australian archbishop was spared jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at home.
Westminster car crash 'treated as terrorist incident', police say

Christian Today staff writer | Tue 14 Aug 2018 9:07 BST

A number of people were injured when a car collided with security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday morning and the driver was arrested, police said.
How the Andrew Brunson case is straining relations between the US and Turkey to breaking point

Christian Today staff writer | Mon 13 Aug 2018 14:46 BST

Presidents Trump and Erdogan met only a month ago at a NATO summit where Trump praised the Turkish president for 'doing things the right way'.
Assumptions Christians make about God when life falls apart

Niki Hardy | Mon 13 Aug 2018 13:46 BST

Still groggy from the anaesthesia, I was ushered into a small, lifeless room where I was given the news. They'd found a large tumour that was either cancer or lymphoma.