6+ hour, 42+ min ago   (785+ words) We often project later experiences back into history, consciously or unconsciously assuming an inevitability to what finally occurred. However, history is complex and, what now seems inevitable, did not always look that way in the past. The distribution of forms…...

20+ hour, 31+ min ago   (429+ words) A coalition of Methodist churches and faith organisations in Britain, Ireland and Colombia have joined forces to submit a complaint concerning HSBC’s financing relationship with a mining giant operating in the Colombian town of La Guajira. The complaint centres on…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (433+ words) Egyptian-American pastor Dr Michael A Youssef has warned that Western civilization is under threat from an “unholy alliance” of left-wingers and Islamists. Dr Youssef, who is also a cultural anthropologist, argues in his new book that left-wing activists work in…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (473+ words) In days gone by the Church of England was described as the “Tory Party at prayer”. Times have changed somewhat and now Labour are well represented at different levels of the church. This is well demonstrated by the Parliamentary interaction…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (489+ words) Police had to guard the Rev Canon Dr Richard Firth, Vicar of Doncaster Minster, after protesters against illegal immigration entered the church and accused him of deliberately using bell-ringing to disrupt speeches outside. Video footage of the confrontation showed Canon…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1054+ words) Greig says the word came to him in March while he was in South Africa worshipping with a group of 24-7 Prayer leaders. The apparent prophecy was not accompanied by a specific prediction about the identity of an enemy, the timing…...