‘Better for them to die’: The lie that will only get bigger if Scotland legalises assisted suicide
First the ‘terminally ill’. Then the disabled. Then the mentally ill. Then the old and infirm and sad and lonely.
First the ‘terminally ill’. Then the disabled. Then the mentally ill. Then the old and infirm and sad and lonely.
Today marks the 450th anniversary of the death of the Scottish reformer and firebrand preacher John Knox.
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.