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What the decriminalisation of abortion really means in practice
Labour MPs Tonia Antoniazzi and Stella Creasy have each tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill – New Clause 1 and New Clause 20 – aiming to fully decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. As Christians, we believe every human being bears God’s image and has inherent dignity from…
Mark Gilmore
Should Christians use AI?
Moving with the times I have been a Christian for over 40 years and have always worked in technology. I currently work for a global bank in AI/Machine Learning, giving me a professional head start on others attempting to get to grips with this new technology. The most recent use of AI is by far the…
Kenny O'Donnell
Parliament votes to legalise unsafe and dangerous abortion
Instead of the law protecting both lives in pregnancy, all unborn children have lost legal protections and women have been abandoned by those tasked and paid to provide care. Some women will risk their own lives and health in the name of ‘autonomy’. Others will be coerced into ‘choosing’ by…
Dawn McAvoy
Church leaders meet with their MP: an encouraging collaboration
As we know, the 2024 general election brought huge political change, with a considerable proportion of MPs being new to office. As an advocacy team we have been connecting with many of the new MPs in different ways. Over the last few months, we have connected member churches with MPs in Scotland,…
Zanna Meynell
Assisted suicide bill advances to the House of Lords
It is often said, how a society treats its most vulnerable is a reflection of how it measures and values humanity. I would like to go one step further and suggest the decision of politicians to conceive and propose to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales is a reflection on how cultural…
Alicia Edmund
Defining "Islamophobia" could restrict gospel freedom
Religion, politics, ethnicity and free speech are difficult conversations to have in a public forum without fear and are also a policy weakness for politicians who are either faith illiterate or struggle to appreciate the interaction between religions. However, there is no excuse to tolerate the…
Alicia Edmund
Keir Starmer’s first year in office as prime minister: a tale of two halves
It is my view that the prime minister needs to shift his political focus from international statesman, where he has been more comfortable leading on the global stage, to driving the government’s domestic agenda. Labour’s first year in government has been chaotic and confusing at times and needs…
Alicia Edmund
Created for connection: life as a foreigner in Seoul
Cue a flurry of house renovating, a flood, more house renovating and finally in December 2018, after a final Christmas for a while in the UK, we got on the plane. I was not new to travelling and living overseas, but this had not prepared me for the most alien place I had ever been to. When we…
Heather Carruthers
From tolerated to celebrated: how we can include children in our services
I was intrigued. This wasn’t a typical Sunday morning; I was conducting research for my master’s degree into children’s voices in the church. Towards the end of the focus group, I asked a five-year-old boy about the sad faces. He confidently told me, “Those are the people in grown-up church. I…
Lisa Barr
National Day of Prayer for Life
The National Day of Prayer for Life takes place on 27 October each year to mark the date the 1967 Abortion Act was passed in the UK. This legislation provided legal defences to abortion in England, Wales and Scotland, and has led to the loss of over 10 million lives. For many years, Northern…
A Christian response to the government's ten-year NHS plan for England
The government have released their long-awaited Ten-Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future. Are these the planned changes that the country has been crying out for or have they bitten off more than they can chew? Our report Thinking faithfully about politics was released in the lead up to…
Zanna Meynell
New Relationships and Sex Education guidance published ahead of the 2026 school term
Education is an important aspect of a child’s life and – when done well – can complement their spiritual formation within the home and wider society. Jesus cares deeply about the educational attainment of children and teenagers, but He cares far more that the younger generation would know Him as…
Alicia Edmund
Are you a good news person?
Nicola: Today, you are here to talk about your new book, Good News People: Hopeful Evangelicals Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Gavin, in short, what’s the premise of the book? Gavin: The premise of the book is that we are gospel people; we are good news people in a bad news world, and throughout…
Nicola Morrison
A deep dive into The Quiet Revival research
What is the Bible Society and what is your role there? Bible Society is a 200-year-old charity which exists to make the Bible accessible to everyone. For much of our history we worked on translating the Bible into different languages and making it available around the world. Today much of our work…
Nicola Morrison
