Cultural attitudes to women – theirs or ours?

Cultural attitudes towards women amongst some refugee groups in other countries have been in the news in recent weeks. But such negative cultural attitudes to women are to be found much closer to home. Last October Contemporary Christianity partnered with BMS  for a...

Check your luggage

This article was broadcast as a Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster on Friday 1st January 2016 and is  adapted and used with permission. While we slept last night and without any assistance from us the earth rotated and a new day is about to dawn and who knows...

Living in debt or out of debt

Given that the Apostle Paul reminded Timothy that the love of money is the root of all evil, he would not be impressed by our public worship of borrowing and debt today.  The statistics are scary: people in the UK owed £1.452 trillion at the end of September 2015....

Plumbing the well of unhappiness

In western societies we have pushed back the tide of physical causes of harm to the extent that most achieve the milestone of 80 years of age before dying, with a majority enjoying good health up until their final years. However, the conditions that have been kind to...

Migrants and Mercy

This article was first published on the Place for Truth website of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and is reproduced with permission. Europe is in the grip of the most serious displaced persons crisis since the Second World War. Pope Francis, on his recent...