The heavenly life

When we bring the gifts of bread and wine to the altar, and the collection for those in need, we also offer ourselves to God and neighbour, as Daniel McCarthy explains, in a way that may purify us and make us more fit for heaven both here and in the hereafter...

His hands on earth

Commitment to justice and peace is not an optional extra for Christians. It is part of the call to holiness and to be followers of Christ. And the work must unite prayer with action...

Keeping faith in the NHS

Compassion is crucial to caring for the sick, according to research commissioned for the sixtieth birthday of the National Health Service, which also reveals that those most committed to compassionate practice are drawn from the ranks of religious believers...

Journey into the dark

Dementia is the biggest problem facing the NHS today. Here is one man's experience of how the condition has affected his family's life ...

'We need a culture of being human'

The Vatican has warned the faithful that some of the books of Jon Sobrino could cause them harm. Peter Stanford asked the theologian about Rome's investigation of him, and where he stands today on liberation theology and the 'option for the poor'...

On the road to Tarsus

As the year of St Paul gets under way, focus is shifting to the place of his birth, now in modern secular Turkey, where hopes are high that the city's only Christian church could be reinstated for permanent worship in time for the anticipated influx of Pauline pilgrims...

Africa's double-edged inheritance

In the wake of Robert Mugabe's self-proclaimed 're-election' as President of Zimbabwe, a Nigerian professor of theology explains how the continent's ancient cultures, as well as the colonial legacy, have thwarted the growth of human rights and modern leadership...