Picture a mother. She’s just taken her three kids with her to the supermarket to get the weekly shop. She’s now faced with a screaming toddler who refuses to get back into his car seat. No amount of chiding or cajoling makes any difference. Eventually she resorts to picking him up, wrestling him in and fastening the seatbelt.
On 18 April 1521, Martin Luther made his stand for the supremacy of Scripture at the imperial assembly known as the Diet of Worms.
A couple of weeks ago the BBC released a podcast re-evaluating the life of Mary Whitehouse. For those too young to remember, Mary Whitehouse was a British Christian moral campaigner who came to prominence in the 70s and 80s. She sought to protect the public from obscene – particularly pornographic – content in an increasingly permissive age.
While Mothering Sunday was originally a day of the year in which people were expected to return to worship at their childhood church, over time the meaning broadened. Young people who lived or worked away from their family would be given the day off to return to visit their families.
On 20 March 2009, a Christian couple were arrested and accused of committing a ‘hate crime’ for allegedly criticising Islam in a discussion with a guest at their hotel.
Boots recently announced a cut to the price of the morning-after pill (MAP) to £10. This pill has been around for decades. It was first licensed in the UK in the 1980s for occasional use. However, today it can legally be handed out without prescription, and even in schools to children under the age of consent.
