What have we done?
This is a week on which we will look back in horror. Our voices must not go quiet in the battle against the automatons of autonomy.
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Illegal drugs – a blight on all our lives
The Mayor of London sees no problem in letting people get away with carrying a little bit of cannabis for their own use. In fact, last month he told the Government it should consider decriminalising possession of ‘small quantities’.
How abortion activists are using Nicola Packer to push for more extreme laws
Nicola Packer was recently found not guilty of having an illegal abortion. In England and Wales, it’s against the law for women to have a DIY home abortion using tablets after ten weeks, and Packer had been accused of knowingly taking abortion pills at home well after that. Marie Stopes International, which provided her with the abortion pills following a remote consultation, told her she was less than ten weeks along, when in fact she was 26 weeks pregnant.
Legal analysis: How Christians are affected by the UK Supreme Court gender ruling
The UK Supreme Court recently ruled that the definition of a woman is determined by biology not ideology for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. We asked Sam Webster, a Solicitor Advocate and the in-house Solicitor at The Christian Institute for his initial take on the implications for churches and Christians. Here’s what he has to say…
A ‘praiseworthy landmark’ as the Council of Nicaea marks its 1,700th anniversary
The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of Christians in post-apostolic church history. Martin Luther called it ‘the best and first general synod after that held by the holy apostles’. It produced a creed which, in the revised form sanctioned by the Council of Constantinople in the year 381, was soon being recited in all the churches as an act of worship. In many traditions it is still recited today.
Assisted suicide: Doing no harm?
It’s almost 80 years since our National Health Service came into being. In the words of the 1946 Act it was a service “designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people”.