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Could watching football be a religious experience?

Peter Crumpler Fri 7 Apr 2023 6:12 BST

Churches and Christians could find much to ponder in the passion, enthusiasm and long-term commitment shown by football supporters – the vast majority of whom will not be in church on Easter Day.

How can we carry our Sunday confidence into Monday morning?

Ken Benjamin | Thu 6 Apr 2023 6:10 BST

For most of us, it feels scarier to live out our faith on our frontlines than in our churches.
The Nashville shooting – a window to America's soul

David Robertson | Wed 5 Apr 2023 6:36 BST

The Resurrection is the answer to the hopelessness of the Nashville shooting. Preach Him!
The triumph of ideology over reason in British schools

Lynda Rose | Wed 5 Apr 2023 6:35 BST

The ideological promotion of gender choice, for which there is no scientific basis, must be removed from education.
Transgender ideology in schools is the mother of all safeguarding failures

Andrea Williams | Tue 4 Apr 2023 6:44 BST

Andrea Williams comments on new findings that show a majority of secondary schools are requiring pupils to affirm 'gender identities'.
What is the right way forward for the Church of England after General Synod?

Martin Davie | Sun 2 Apr 2023 10:20 BST

The bishops don't seem to have given themselves time to do the tasks they have set themselves and the tasks themselves seem to be either impossible or unnecessary.
Diversity takes precedence over religion? The case of Rev Dr Patrick Pullicino

Roger Kiska | Tue 28 Mar 2023 5:40 BST

To force employees, especially chaplains, to violate their consciences and affirm what they view as sin, would be the end of religious freedom in this country outside of the four walls of our churches.
What does the election of Scotland's new Muslim First Minister mean for the Church in Scotland?

David Robertson | Tue 28 Mar 2023 5:07 BST

Why should we be concerned? Not because Yousaf is a Muslim. No, we should be concerned because of his authoritarian tendencies
Revolutionary language

Campbell Campbell-Jack | Fri 24 Mar 2023 6:23 GMT

Language is too important to be left a tool in the hands of progressive ideologues in their fruitless pursuit of woke utopia.
How should Christians respond to Met Police failings?

Jo Trickey | Thu 23 Mar 2023 6:10 GMT

Let's be people who help bring about the culture we long to see.
God is moving among Muslims this Ramadan, so why aren't we celebrating?

Alan Hallmart | Thu 23 Mar 2023 5:32 GMT

Since the movement to pray through Ramadan began 30 years ago, more Muslims have willingly decided to follow Christ in the last three decades than in all the previous 1,400 years of Christian-Muslim interaction put together.
Britain's 1984 moment

John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett | Tue 21 Mar 2023 6:50 GMT

How did Britain, with its rich history of defending liberty, devolve into a place of banning prayer and peaceful protest while categorizing as dangerous some of the greatest classics their culture has offered the world?
Leviticus and lessons in leadership

Irene Lancaster | Tue 21 Mar 2023 6:16 GMT

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explores the Jewish approach to leadership and lessons from Leviticus.