A lurker writes: Is the woman the lesbian is living with also a lesbian?  That would make a big difference I would think, between companionship, and stupidly dangling temptation before your eyes. Should an alcoholic have a non-drinking relationship with a beer? This, of course, raises the question ...

Alan Chambers of the “ex-gay” organisation Exodus says that “sexless committed relationships between members of the same gender” are sinful, and that this is a “fairly cut and dry biblical position on this issue”. He cites the example of: …a Christian lesbia...

As in previous years, our congregation has prepared a series of Lenten devotions written by church members. This year, the devotions are loosely based around selections from Luther’s Small Catechism, as explained by our pastor in his introduction. Today’s devotion (on Romans 5:19) is ava...

Terribly sad news about David Cameron’s son Ivan, who has died age 6. Here’s a prayer which seems appropriate, from the Church of England’s Common Worship order for the funeral of a child: Most merciful God, whose wisdom is beyond our understanding, surround the family of Ivan with...

There are a lot of school students in Basingstoke who will be needing to see/experience the love of Christ for all people on (and after) Friday of this week, to counteract the monstrous perversion of the Christian faith being promulgated by Westboro Baptist Church’s “God Hates Fags”...

In the last few minutes, the Church of England’s General Synod has voted overwhelmingly (283-8, with 10 abstentions) in favour of a motion affirming “the uniqueness of Christ in Britain’s multi-faith society”. The text of the motion (with bullet points added by me for clarity...

Mark: thanks for the kind words about my “centred set” post, which is here (and I also touched on the same theme here). To clarify one point: in the context in which I was using the term (and this is going back a few years now), I wasn’t talking about Jesus as the centre. Obviously...

Today has been - for members of the Church of England - the commemoration of Charles, King and Martyr, better known as Charles I of England. A day that brings out the Roundhead in me (until I remember about Oliver Cromwell, which then brings out the Leveller in me). “Martyr”. Good grief....

The Augsburg Confession’s articulation of the nature of the church - “the assembly of saints in which the gospel is taught purely and the sacraments are administered rightly” - gives rise to an important question. Does this mean that only the Evangelical Lutheran Church is the R...

Where can we find “the church that Christ founded”? Bryan Cross poses this question, and goes on to argue (correctly) that evangelical Christians tend to ignore this question most of the time, and (more contentiously, but not without reason) that evangelicalism has “no such thing (...