Ashers: the lawyer’s view
The remarkable judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) in Lee v Ashers Baking Company will affect courts in all parts of the UK in their future application of discrimination and human rights law.
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Wycliffe and the Lollards: sowing the seeds of the English Reformation
To many, the Reformation began on 31 October 1517, when Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenburg, Germany. But in England at least, the seeds of reformation had been sown around 150 years before.
‘The most inflexible of human wills united to the gentlest of human hearts’
The slave trade was abolished by Parliament in 1807, but the groundwork was carried out decades before. It was a Christian – Granville Sharp – whose landmark legal action led to slavery being outlawed on English soil.
In a culture that has deliberately turned away from God, what basis is there for morality?
More than seventy killings took place in London in the first quarter of 2018.1 A surgeon in a London hospital reports that the number of children and young people being brought in with knife injuries is at an all-time high.2 This great city, blessed in the past by some of the greatest gospel preachers in church history, is waking up almost daily to headlines telling of another life snatched away.
Ligonier research: How much do people today know about God?
How much do people in Britain today know about God, the Bible, or Jesus Christ?
Emma Watson, and the truth about her open letter on abortion
As contrasts go, Hollywood film star Emma Watson and an unborn child are about as different as they come. One has been given the platform to seemingly speak for all women everywhere. The other is yet to even have a voice of their own.