Was this judgement?
Eye-watering debt and social breakdown loom… The good news? More babies will survive. Meanwhile, churches are lumped in with leisure centres in the post-lockdown pecking order By Dave Borlase Britain…
Mortgaging the future
Covid-19’s legacy will prove terminal for the current world system, says Philip Wren Maybe the economy will bounce back as the government hopes. Maybe tax revenues will quickly recover, allowing…
“Three years of great humbling will come upon this nation…”
In the days before the prophet Samuel, we are told “the Word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation” (1 Samuel 3:1). That is…
He’s God, not Google!
Ultimately, we WILL be given answers. Faith is trusting God when he speaks and when he doesn’t, says Canon J John While some are scrambling to unravel the mystery of…
NHS cares, God cures!
Former NHS worker Femi Omotoyinbo reflects on our need to humbly ask God to heal our land Living under the Covid-19 lockdown, it has been painful to hear about deaths…
This is a Wilberforce moment
Social care and Covid-19: crisis or opportunity? WHEN WILLIAM WILBERFORCE campaigned against the slave trade in the early 19th century, he understood the need for political, social and spiritual activism.…
Coronavirus delays Pope’s “new humanism” pact – while a cardinal warns of world government
Coronavirus has forced the Vatican to postpone the launch of a global ‘re-education’ plan in which “God ‘withdraws’ so that man can be free.” The chosen day for Pope Francis’…
By his stripes we are healed
This is what the world needs to hear right now Huge opportunities for Christians to respond with faith to a fearful public With life in lockdown due to the coronavirus…
Blood, sweat and fears
Churches were closed, but millions of ‘shut-ins’ are denied the opportunity to see live performances of the ‘greatest story ever told’ in the open air this year If governments hadn’t…
Pupils lose a source of help
One casualty of the school closures is School Pastors Pupils struggling with bullying and other emotional issues had been getting help from friendly grown-ups who are not their teachers or…
Churchill’s Cairo challenge
Dr Elizabeth Allan describes how her research led her to discover that Churchill has been misjudged For decades, many evangelical Christians have believed that Churchill, for all his heroic qualities…
Will God use Johnson as he used Churchill?
Many now agree that God used Churchill mightily. Might the same apply to Johnson in the days ahead? by Philip Quenby Few Christians would have suggested either Winston Churchill or…
Restoring Churchill’s reputation
Photo: Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill (right), Sir Herbert Samuel (middle) and the Emir Abdullah (left of Samuel) on the front steps of Government House in Jerusalem, 28 March, 1921.…
Christians set to flee Iraq & Syria
Turkish invasion could wipe out cradle of Christianity by Andrew Boyd and Andrew Halloway An uncertain future: will these children, living as refugees in Erbil, Kurdistan, be the last generation…
Turkey’s Syria invasion could wipe out Christians
Christians are facing an existential threat from Turkish-backed forces by Andrew Halloway “The Turkish military offensive into northeast Syria has wreaked havoc on the lives of Syrian civilians who once…