Engaging contemporary culture from a biblical worldview.
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60109. Antisemitism is rising again in Britain, and I do not write that as a rhetorical flourish. Synagogue attacks, harassment of Jewish students on campuses, conspiracy theories that would have been recognised in 1930s Germany, and a great deal of it circulating among people who would be appalled to be called racist. So it…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60034. Few phrases generate more heat in a Christian conversation than systemic racism, and a good deal of that heat comes from people arguing past one another because they are using the words differently. Before anyone can agree or disagree, it is worth being clear about what is actually being claimed. At its simplest…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60033. Whether a Christian should be using AI is now a live question in ordinary church life rather than a theoretical one. Students are using it for essays, employers are requiring it, and preachers are quietly wondering whether the sermon outline that appeared in thirty seconds counts as their own work. The unease is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60032. Artificial intelligence has moved from the pages of science fiction into daily life at a speed that has caught most institutions unprepared, the church very much included. Systems that write, summarise, translate, generate pictures and hold a conversation are now in the hands of anyone with a phone, and the question of whether…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60031. Creation care is one of those subjects where Christians tend to react rather than think, and the reactions come in two flavours. Some believers absorb the environmental movement wholesale and end up with a faith in which recycling has become a sacrament. Others dismiss the whole field as a left wing preoccupation for…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030. Racism is one of the oldest and most persistent evils in human history, and Scripture gives us the tools to name it for what it is. Before we get to any modern argument about terminology or policy, there is a straightforward biblical account of why treating people as lesser on the basis of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60046. Guns and borders occupy a place in the public witness of some American Christians that puzzles believers almost everywhere else in the world. I am writing as a British Baptist minister, and I want to be careful, because it is easy for an outsider to be superior about another country’s debates while being…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60028. Christian political involvement makes many believers uneasy, and the unease usually runs in one of two directions. Some feel that any engagement with public life is a distraction from the gospel and a step toward compromise. Others feel that a faith which never touches how a country is run is a private hobby…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60045. Woke ideology is a term that generates more heat than light, partly because almost nobody who is called woke uses the word about themselves, and partly because it has become a general purpose insult for anything the speaker dislikes. So let me define what I mean before I go a step further, because…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60025. Modern political thinking has almost no category for national sin. Nations are treated as power structures, economies, or administrative units, and the idea that a country as a country might be morally accountable to God sounds to most ears like something left over from an older world. Scripture takes an entirely different view,…