After two years of intense social debate, the draft law is ready to be passed by the Senate. Two evangelical organisations warn against the “temptation of creating and augmented humanity”.

We have reduced our central heating thermostat by 1 degree and will look to reduce it further in stages. Jumpers are lovely, we should wear them more when it’s colder.

Perhaps we too easily skim over the more minor characters that fill the pages of our Bibles?

According to the OECD, the median age of the population will increase from 40 years today to 45 years in 2050. “The church must awaken the mission call that the Lord gave the elderly people”, says a Christian leader.

The temptation facing us is either to push the panic button, adding further confusion to the chaos, or to take flight and escape into denial about what’s going on in society. For Christians both of these options are simply unacceptable.

Most countries vote on Sunday, but Britons, Dutch, Czech, Irish and Latvians did so earlier. Evangelicals called to “vote prayerfully and responsibly”.

Let's pray for the next 5 years of the European Union to be a period where wise and just decisions are made to face the economic, technological, environmental, social and security challenges.

The environmental crisis of the current age is symptomatic of a deeper relational crisis. An article by Hannah Eves.

Christian student groups participate in environmental initiatives. “We cannot remain insensitive to the problems we know we are causing [...] it is necessary to discover the essential verdure of the Christian faith”.

The advances of the web have changed the world. Now we must learn to use it at its best.

Perhaps we are being offered a wake-up call and a hope. And perhaps we can bring a humble, rich theology of creation (one that spurs us into action) squarely into the debate.

“Change the system, not the climate”, say 35,000 in Brussels. Christian experts welcome initiatives to change consumption habits.

It is urgent to reflect on the issues and challenges of childhood, both as a society and as local churches.

The day will come when there will be no confusion about the future.

A private company says it will freeze and preserve human bodies for at least 100 years. In the United States, 350 people have already given their body to cryopreservation.

The future has a curious power to shape us.

“We have to understand the times in which we live, and have discernment”, says Doctor Peter J. Saunders.

Communications technology, changes culture. And just as the printing press, the telegraph, radio, and television have done, so the internet is changing our culture. And at lightning speed.

That trip felt like a cautionary tale: like a chance to look back to a phase like one day I’ll look back to the whole of my life.

Christians appear to be able to offer a framework for insisting on the value and dignity of the human being in a mechanising world.

To claim that somehow Britain is morally superior to the other 27 countries of the EU is a dangerously arrogant position to take.

“The atmosphere in the country is changed, there is hope and trust over the future”, says Armenian Human Rights activist and evangelical Christian Hasmik Hovsepyan.

Altered Carbon goes a long way to showing us what an eternity without God’s presence would look like.

Both past and future can overwhelm the present.

The sensationalist zeal of some writers and self-proclaimed experts in eschatology is as big as their incapacity to get it right.