Religion 
Time for Christians to stand up and be counted(2)
Image via Wikipedia Polticians who bring faith into politics are sometimes accused of being cranks. I have blogged on this before but I will say again that I am a committed Christian. Given this I was horrified to hear that the nurse who wished to wear a cross (Shirley Chaplin) had lost her case at [...]
The cartoon row returns
Image by sgrah via Flickr I was amazed to hear this morning of the attack in the home of the Danish cartoonist who wrote the apparently terrible cartoons that insulted Islam. The issue made me look back at what it was that I felt at the time the cartoons row first blew up. I was [...]
A Christmas message
As we celebrate Christmas, and come to the end the first decade of the 21st century, there is much to look forward to and even more to reflect on. We all want to see the end of the recession but we also need to see the end of this failed Government. But, at Christmas, it [...]
Christian faith and politics
Image via Wikipedia There was a time – mainly during the Bush Presidency – when to profess that you, as a politician, believed in God was something you tended to hide. It is probably a little unfair to just blame Bush because I believe there was a bit of a view that you were slightly [...]