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: 6 minutesQuestion 60049. Primal heresy is the name I give to the oldest lie ever told, the one that arrived in a garden and has been repackaged in every generation since. It has four parts, and if you learn them you will recognise them everywhere, which is both useful and rather depressing. The serpent questioned God’s…
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 60029. Every so often someone tells me that the historical Jesus never existed, that He was invented by the early church out of older myths, and that the whole thing is a construction. It circulates online, appears in popular books, and lands in the inbox of Christian students at university with an air of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60047. Can you be a pro-choice Christian? I want to answer the pro-choice Christian question carefully, because it is almost never asked in the abstract. Behind it there is usually a person, and often a hard story, and a pastor who answers as though he were scoring a debating point has failed before he…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60014. Buddhism and Christianity both begin by taking suffering seriously, which is more than most modern philosophies manage, and then they move in opposite directions. That shared starting point is why Buddhism appeals to thoughtful Westerners who have given up on church. It is also why the differences need stating clearly. A faith that…
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…