As a young Christian believer I was stirred in my soul when I realised that our nation had turned its back on God. I wanted to glorify God in my life and assumed that ‘full-time Christian work’ was the best way to do it. I went to as many missionary conferences as I could, but in 1984 concluded that God wasn’t calling me to work for him in a church or as a missionary. So I became a teacher. In my own mind, this was a life on ‘Track B’.
Back in 2020, Christian filmmaker Murdo Macleod spoke exclusively to The Christian Institute about his upcoming film Morningstar, which was then still in its early stages. Covid was causing setbacks to production, but fast forward to the present day and the docudrama on the life of John Wycliffe is now complete and is in the middle of a screening tour of the UK.
In the UK, Scotland is at the forefront of the push to make changing legal sex easier. This has come at a cost to the careers of those willing to speak out against it, and the young people whose health and futures are being trampled upon.
Liz Truss’s time in Downing Street has been extremely short-lived. No other Prime Minister has spent less time at No. 10. Her tenure saw major U-turns on economic policies, the sacking of the Chancellor and the resignation of the Home Secretary.
By Dr John R. Ling
Saturday 10 September was World Suicide Prevention Day. Every year, individuals and organisations around the world join together to raise awareness of what can drive some people to believe that suicide is their only option. Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy, and in 2021 alone there were 5,5831 registered in England and Wales.
