Brexit – my reluctant conversion to ‘no-deal’
Economic analyst John Petley reviews God’s providence in the EU referendum result and says ‘no deal’ is now “the least bad option” For nearly 20 years, I have been an…
Hong Kong protesters
Your depiction of the protestors in Hong Kong (International news, Aug/Sept) as Christians who are doing what Jesus would do in their situation is quite appalling – and a serious…
Powerful prayer
Following the powerful Eurovision day of prayer for the nation on 31 August, our home group returned with our hearts ‘burning’. Having recently looked at the biblical minor prophets, we…
Cathedral playtime
With a 55ft tall helter-skelter in Norwich Cathedral at £2 a go and a crazy golf course in Rochester Cathedral, we must be living in the “last days” when people…
God’s temple
It appears that Notre Dame Cathedral is being worshipped (Letters, Aug/Sept), despite the Apostle Paul’s declaration in Athens that God “does not dwell in temples made with hands” (Acts 17:24).…
Schoolgirls and trousers
This September female pupils were locked out of the mixed Priory School, Lewes, East Sussex, because they arrived in skirts, not the new “gender-neutral” uniform of trousers. Trousers can be…
Gospel grabbers
Our open air team spent a turbocharged six hours preaching the Gospel non-stop at our annual Notting Hill Carnival outreach in August. Many responded to our call to repent, with…
HEART in high places
I am writing to Boris Johnson and enclosing a copy of your paper. In the past God has used godless men to bring about his purposes – and Boris could…
Revoke Article 50
Can anyone deny that Brexit has provoked our UK constitutional crisis, parliamentary paralysis and impending social and economic breakdown? Although Brussels is often demonised as a symbol of profligate, unelected…
Shakespeare was right
Back in the 1500s, Shakespeare aptly predicted the demise of this nation in John of Gaunt’s dying speech (‘Richard II’): “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth…