The “gold standard” conversion therapy ban?
The reality of the law in Victoria, Australia
Those calling for a broad conversion therapy law have consistently called for governments across the UK to follow the example of Victoria, Australia.
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Abortion (Ireland)
During the campaign to repeal Ireland’s protections for the unborn, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar pledged that abortion would become “safe, legal and rare”. Yet in the years since the 2018 repeal of the eighth amendment, over 28,000 abortions have already been carried out.
Euthanasia (Ireland)
Campaigners for socalled ‘assisted dying’ want to enable terminally ill adults to get help to end their lives.
Hate crime (Ireland)
The term ‘hate crime’ has become embedded in the public consciousness over the last few years.
Conversion therapy (Ireland)
The Government intends to ban ‘conversion therapy’. A new law covering both sexual orientation and gender identity is being drafted, overseen by Equalities Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD.
Critical Theory
Increasingly in our culture, the individual experience of those deemed to be ‘oppressed’ settles every argument and overrides objective evidence. Their perception is seen as all important. An ‘oppressed’ person’s feelings cannot be questioned. Feelings are more important than facts. (6 pages)
Critical Theory: Challenging Truth and Reality
‘Critical Theory’ is the ideology behind woke activism and ‘cancel culture’. Both Christians and non-Christians are facing fierce challenges at university or at work because of this lethal blend of postmodernism and Marxism. (48 pages)
The Fourth Commandment
Only a few decades ago, a high view of the Lord’s Day was standard among English-speaking evangelicals. Yet today, there are many Christians for whom the whole notion of one day set aside for God seems a quaint throw-back to Victorian values. It is easy to feel intimidated by the tide of this popular thinking within the evangelical world.
The Christian Origins of Humanism
We have come to think of humanism as something to oppose. Secular humanism represents what most Christians view as the advance of the secular state: policy proposals and decisions which are based upon the centrality and priority of human reason or rationality without reference to God at all, never mind any basis in the revelation given in Holy Scripture.
Discussing Gnosticism
The Tron Church Glasgow took the Institute’s recent Gnosticism publication, written by Dr Nick Needham, as its ‘Big Read’. As they discuss the booklet, Agnes Brough, Phil Copeland and Willie Philip seek to help Christians be better equipped to have informed conversations on such sensitive and difficult topics.