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.
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.
A lot has been said over the past few years about freedom of expression – who has the right to say what, is this kind of language acceptable, is that OK to say in public but not online, and what, if any, consequences should there be for offensive speech?
Guest feature by Lizzie Harewood, CEO of the Association of Christian Teachers
For 16 years, Tanni Grey-Thompson was an almost unstoppable force in wheelchair racing. Eleven gold medals, four silver and one bronze across five Paralympic Games have made her one of the most authoritative voices in disability sport.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 NIV
