DATE : 10 June 2020 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
It is surely time for the culture of victimhood and entitlement to end. Over the last few days we have seen justifiable outrage over the killing of George Floyd – but nothing justifies the outpouring of hatred and cries for revenge that we have since witnessed in demonstrations across the globe. Bad things happen. They happen to […]
READ MOREDATE : 7 June 2020 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
In a statement issued on 4th June, the Department for Education announced that mandatory introduction of the controversial new Regulations governing Relationships and Health Education in primary schools, and Relationships and Sex and Health Education in secondary schools is to be postponed till summer 2021 (External Link). This news is welcome indeed – though given that proper Consultation between parents and schools, as required by law, has been prevented from happening as result of lockdown, it is hard to see what else they could reasonably have done.
READ MOREDATE : 18 May 2020 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people have been asking, ‘Where is God in all of this? What does it mean …?’ And even, ‘Is it judgement?’ It is extraordinary how a life and death crisis can turn people’s thoughts towards God – though equally it has to be admitted that some die-hard secularists […]
READ MOREDATE : 6 May 2020 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
At a meeting of the Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee on 23rd April, Liz Truss, Secretary of State for Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities, told MPs that she would shortly be announcing changes banning children from undergoing sex-change surgery below the age of 18 (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/transgender-law-will-change-to-protect-under-18s-truss-signals-8pjtv9crn). She said that children should be protected from making irreversible decisions […]
READ MOREDATE : 3 May 2020 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
For too long the Church has been in lockdown. Christians have been in quarantine. But the new has come, and the Lord’s word is, ‘Come out!’ It’s not yet visible, true – but something new is here. It’s arrived, and we must seize the opportunity. On the other side of the pandemic, life will be different for all of us, and […]
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