The Christian Institute

1 month ago | christian.org.uk | Ciaran Kelly

The Government is finally set to unveil its flagship Crime and Policing Bill. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, says it will ‘take back our streets’ and restore respect for law and order’. But this behemoth is ripe for hijacking in the name of  abortion ‘rights’. Every abortion takes a life. More than 10 million human beings have been killed in Britain since the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967.[1] At present, the death toll runs at around 300,000 a year.

2 months ago | christian.org.uk | Ciaran Kelly

The pace of the 24-hour news cycle means nothing stays the focus for long. So, inevitably, the appalling revelations of Britain’s child rape gangs have dropped out of the headlines. Young girls were first groomed and then abused, trafficked, manipulated and threatened. When some were brave enough to say what was going on they were ignored and even blamed for what had happened to them. The story, rightly, sickened the nation.

Oct 25, 2024 | christian.org.uk | Simon Calvert

In 2002, I got a phone call from a church in south Wales. A man who was presenting as a woman had been attending the church for a year. The fact he’d been attending for a year tells you the church had been good at welcoming him. But he wanted the church to let him use the women’s toilets and attend the women’s Bible study. They said no. So he sued them. He sued them with the help of the Equal Opportunities Commission – the statutory body responsible for sex-based rights.

Oct 16, 2024 | christian.org.uk | Paul Yeulett

The hands of the clock tick forward, not backward. Time only moves in one direction. By the time you finish this sentence, you’ll already be about five seconds older than when you started it, not five seconds younger. This present life is a one-way ticket in the direction of old age. “The measure of a civilisation is how it treats its weakest members” is a quote that has been attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but it has been repeated, in one form or another, by many others.

Aug 29, 2024 | christian.org.uk | Nick Needham

In The Times earlier this month, James Marriott – a journalist who writes on society, culture, and ideas – recommended the podcast Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. Ehrman is a well-known writer, who since the early 1990s has presented to a wider public the perspective of ‘critical’ textual scholarship on the New Testament. Ehrman is an ex-Evangelical, now describing himself as an agnostic.