Holidays 1 Aug 2008
What do our holidays reveal about us or, more importantly, the God we follow? |
Mosley's Morality 25 Jul 2008
FNT reader: What do you think of what Max Mosley did? Was it wrong?
Their friend: Well, I think it’s fine – I mean I wouldn’t do it myself – but, as Mosley said, it’s none of anyone else’s business what consenting adults get up to in private. |
Causing Offence 18 Jul 2008
This week, the Archbishop of Canterbury was in the headlines again for apparently being worried about causing offence to Muslims. Of course, the truth was somewhat different. |
Jesus Christ is on the street weeping 10 Jul 2008
"Jesus Christ is on the street weeping.
Did you see the newspaper that said the church is navel-gazing while our children are being slaughtered and killed?" These were the words of the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, in a speech last weekend.
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Deserving a Second Chance 4 Jul 2008
Three days ago, on a road I frequently go past, just 200 meters from my Church, another young person was fatally stabbed. |
Doing Good 27 Jun 2008
I’m sure somewhere there’s a website which captures the stories the mainstream media don’t cover. |
Sexual Sin 20 Jun 2008
How on earth did we get to the situation where evangelicals are defined by their attitude to sexuality? |
The Apprentice 13 Jun 2008
On Wednesday night, Lee McQueen became the surprise winner of the latest series of The Apprentice. |
Hillary Clinton's Win 6 Jun 2008
Arguably, Hillary Clinton didn’t lose this week in her campaign to be the democratic nominee for president – she simply delayed it. |
Abortion 23 May 2008
Few issues in recent times have been quite so emotive as the debates this week about abortion. |
Forgiveness 16 May 2008
“What, I wonder, do Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and all the other professional atheists who make good money out of knocking people’s religious faith make of the behaviour of Margaret Mizen in the immediate aftermath of her son Jimmy’s murder?” |
Quality Statistics? 9 May 2008
Once again, it would seem the media have been misleading us. Yesterday, it was revealed that in the 2005 British Comedy Awards the winners of the People’s Choice Award were not in fact the people’s choice. |
Austrian Horror 2 May 2008
Few news stories these days have the power to shock us. Whether it’s teenagers being stabbed in South London or genocide in Africa, we think we’ve seen and heard it all before. Yet, this week’s revelations from Austria will probably have changed all that. |
Social Trends 25 Apr 2008
Every year, the government produces an annual report detailing the Social Trends of the United Kingdom. This year’s report has just been released and its section on religious participation is making the atheists angry. |
The indifferent culture 18 Apr 2008
At the weekend, Eleanor Mills, writing in The Sunday Times, described an occasion where a whole bus full of people failed to intervene to stop a violent offender. |
Remembering Martin Luther King 4 Apr 2008
As they say in politics and media, “timing is everything”. So I was pleasantly surprised to see the BBC 2 documentary last Saturday night on Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, coming a week before the 40th anniversary of King’s death today. |
The god Delusion 28 Mar 2008
Goliath told himself, ‘My spear will skewer this child like a….’
Thud.
So ends the story of David and Goliath in a fantastic new book published by Scripture Union. |
A Good Week 20 Mar 2008
It’s been a good week for the church, and a bad week for the secularists. |
Faith at Work 14 Mar 2008
This is a story you will not have heard. Outside of Wales it received very little coverage and didn’t make any headlines. |
Stoned Moses? 7 Mar 2008
Here’s a claim you might not have heard before: Moses was stoned when he received the Ten Commandments and the “revelations” on Mount Sinai resulted from an altered state of consciousness. |
Obama the Evangelical? 29 Feb 2008
If you have been avidly following the US elections as I have, then you will be aware of the stories that have circulated suggesting that the leading Democrat candidate, Barack Obama, is in fact a Muslim. |
Saving the Children 22 Feb 2008
On Monday, Save the Children released a major new report: Saving Children’s Lives. Its most significant finding is that, as one headline put it, “Wealth may not lead to health.” |
A safe bet for the Archbishop 15 Feb 2008
Of all the jobs in the world, there’s one I’m very glad I don’t have at the moment. The Archbishop of Canterbury. |
Preach the Gospel at all times. If absolutely necessary, use carbon. 8 Feb 2008
If you’re an avid reader of the comments that are posted on our website each week you’ll be aware that, according to one contributor, there are: ‘Ten Top Subjects About Which Christianity Has No Contribution To Make’. |
Hookers for Jesus 1 Feb 2008
“Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews…To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its blessings.” (1 Corinthains 9:19-23)
The question of how far we can take Paul’s principle was raised for me this week by the news coverage of Annie Lobert’s unusual outreach methods. |
Judge Not 25 Jan 2008
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” |
When is a miracle not a miracle? 18 Jan 2008
‘A miraculous emergency landing’ was the opening line in one of our papers this morning as it reflected on the Heathrow plane crash yesterday. |
The Blasphemy Debate 11 Jan 2008
Does God need legal protection? The answer is quite clearly no, as the former Archbishop of Canterbury articulated this week, when questioned about the potential abolition of the blasphemy laws. |
Paul's Christmas Carol 20 Dec 2007
Do you ever wonder if we’ve got Christmas seriously wrong? I don’t mean whether Jesus really was born of a virgin, or whether there really was a guiding star, or whether the angels really did appear to Mary, Joseph and the shepherds. |
A Good News Story 14 Dec 2007
I got the shock of my life this morning. A newspaper actually had a headline that was positive news. |
Blair's Faith 7 Dec 2007
There is something strange in the human psyche that means a man will tolerate being called a warmonger, but not tolerate being called a “nutter”. |
Pullman's god 30 Nov 2007
This week, as The Golden Compass premiered in London, Philip Pullman has managed to pull off the rather unique trick of upsetting both Christians and atheists. |
Striking France 23 Nov 2007
I made a comment the other day that I'm ashamed of. I never thought I would utter the words... |
Sex 16 Nov 2007
In conversations with non-Christian friends, one of the commonest objections to Christianity I have come across is, “But what’s wrong with sex before marriage?” |
Jesus and the WI 9 Nov 2007
Did Jesus enjoy jam making or wear a twin-set and pearls? Clearly not, but what this week has highlighted is that Jesus and the Women’s Institute have more in common than you might think |
God is not dead 2 Nov 2007
What do God and Fidel Castro, the atheist Cuban leader, have in common? Not a lot, but they have both had the misfortune to be declared dead prematurely |
Is Torture ever OK? 26 Oct 2007
Is torture ever justified? Spooks – the BBC 1 spy drama – certainly gave the impression that it was this week |
See no evil 19 Oct 2007
“Our soldiers need better preparation for life after death, says army chief” ran the headline in this week’s The Times. |
Jesus and Rugby 12 Oct 2007
The power of sport to bond people never ceases to amaze and few other things can create such a sense of unity amongst strangers. |
I'm a Creationist - are you? 5 Oct 2007
I have a confession to make: I’m a creationist. Unfortunately, the Government doesn’t agree. |
Burmese Morality and Coronation Street 28 Sep 2007
Fans of Coronation Street have been struggling with forgiveness this week |
Money money money 21 Sep 2007
What would Jesus have made of the queues outside Northern Rock this week? |
Facebook 14 Sep 2007
This week the social networking site, Facebook, has angered privacy advocates by adding a public-search function. This means that soon anyone will be able to find Facebook members via search engines such as Google. |
Dawkins Doubters 7 Sep 2007
It has not been a great week for Richard Dawkins. A series of authors, who previously have been supportive, are now distancing themselves from the extreme nature of his views. |
If God is a God of love ... 27 Jul 2007
If God is a God of love then why does he allow so much suffering? |
Is God punishing Jade? 20 Jul 2007
This week, Closer, the celebrity magazine, splashed the following on its front page: “Jade Goody: My miscarriage is God’s punishment”. |
Biblical Truth at the British Museum 13 Jul 2007
It is not often that our national newspapers acknowledge the historical truth of the Bible, but that is precisely what has taken place this week. |
Sorry - again! 6 Jul 2007
Twice this week, reports of the actions of two high profile Christians have made the task of evangelism that little bit more difficult. |
The Value of Life 29 Jun 2007
Are all lives of equal value? Most of us would instinctively say yes, but it would seem that the government isn’t quite so sure. |
Biology's Dark Matter 22 Jun 2007
"Biologists have gone from thinking that they know what is going on in their subject to suddenly realising that they barely have a clue". |
The Miracle of Green Blood 15 Jun 2007
Science fiction became fact this week when the medical journal The Lancet reported the unusual case of a man with green blood. |
Beckham - You're Hired! 8 Jun 2007
It's been a good week for some. Firstly, David Beckham, after months in the footballing wilderness, returned to triumph against Estonia. Secondly, Katie Hopkins impressed Sir Alan Sugar enough to win a place in The Apprentice final. |
Why God? Why? 1 Jun 2007
According to atheists, the presence of suffering disproves the existence of God. Therefore, the rational response for anyone who experiences suffering is to give up their faith. |
D'oh – I got it wrong 25 May 2007
Until this week, I thought the only thing the Mars Corporation and I had in common was our love for the cocoa bean - but not anymore. We've both realised the need to say sorry. |
'Britain becomes a Prozac Nation' 17 May 2007
A new report by the mental health charity, Mind, revealed that over 31million anti-depressants were handed out last year. |
Friday Night Theology
Commenting on an 'event' each week to help you engage with the world each weekend. |
