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Tsunami: Christian West Are Biggest Givers

When an earthquake struck deep in the bowels of the Indian Ocean and Tsunami waves broke on distant shores, the world stood in stunned shock at the horror of the dimensions a few breaking waves could cause. No one initially fully realised its horror....

  • Where Was God?

    In the aftermath of a cataclysm, with pictures of parents sobbing over dead infants driven into human consciousness around the globe, faith-shaking questions arise: Where was God? Why does a good and all-powerful deity permit such evil and grief to fall on so many thousands of innocents? What did these people do to deserve such suffering...

  • Tsunami, Natural Evil and A God of Love

    Natural evil, unlike moral evil, genocide and terror remains one of the most intractable of human problems that defy simply solutions or pat answers...

  • Christian Citizens and the News Media--Part Two

    We are living in an age of unprecedented media access and almost every home has access to multiple media options. Cable news channels provide a constant stream of reports even as the Internet erases the final geographic barriers to information transfer...

  • Christian Citizens and the News Media--Part One

    How should Christians engage the news media? The expanding controversy over CBS News reports on President George W. Bush's National Guard service--and the network's acknowledgement that it used faked documents in its report--raises a host of issues about truth-telling, media credibility, and evangelical responsibility...

  • Christianity and Secular Government

    Right at the beginning of history, we discover a clear political dimension to reality. The creation accounts reveal that it is God who rules. After establishing his rule and order God hands over the maintenance of that order to humankind...

  • The Anti-Terror Laws

    This week the nation has shared the indescribable trauma of the Bigley family as they await news of British hostage Kenneth Bigley. The rise in hostage-taking in Iraq is just one example of the unintended consequences of the high anxiety about terrorism post-9/11 and following the war in Iraq...

  • Study shows Protestant Ministers want to evangelise Non-Christian Faith Groups

    Study results being released for the first time in the September/October edition of Facts & Trends magazine show the vast majority of Protestant clergy in this country feel strongly that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, and that they believe Christians have a responsibility to try to convert active members of non-Christian faith groups...

  • Love's Got Nothing To Do With It

    With all the wrangling over same-sex marriage within both secular and religious circles, the debate seems stalemated. And one reason Christian debaters have not succeeded is that they overlook one simple fact: Biblical love is not based on romance...

  • Don't blame God, Dr Williams

    It is depressing to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, confess on Radio Four that the Beslan atrocity has made him doubt his faith. Asked, "Does your faith not tremble just a tiny bit?" he replied, "Of course it does. Yes, there is a flicker, there is a doubt...

  • Religious Ethics Clash with Loan Practices

    American democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has brought the issue to the forefront by proposing a sweeping ban on a series of "abusive" loan types that he says are costing consumers in the United States upwards of $9 billion a year...

  • A Harvest of the Spirit

    Over the next few weekends, churches will be awash with tinned food, packets of cereals and displays of local produce. Improbably large marrows will jostle with baskets of fruit, loaves of bread and sheaves...