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Samara, Russia's third largest city after Moscow and St Petersburg, used to be home to the Soviet rocket industry. Past priorities are chillingly reflected in the fact that a city its size (1.1 million) could be built for the cost of 5 nuclear submarines, and yet Russia still has a...
Two controversial designer baby cases have recently aroused public controversy. Peter Saunders asks how far we should allow the new gene technology take us. On Tuesday 8 April the Court of Appeal gave the goahead for the Hashmi family to have a child by in vitro fertilisation in order to...
The book of Ecclesiastes tells us that ‘there is a proper time and procedure for every matter’ and that ‘the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure’ (8:5,6). So often God guides through circumstances, opening and closing doors in his good time, and helping us to be wise in...
A new Bill attempting to legalise Dutch-style euthanasia throughout Britain is making its way through the House of Lords. Lord Joffe's Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill[1] passed its second reading on 6 June without a vote, and now goes to the committee stage, where it can be amended and revised before...
‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners And recovery of sight for the blind, To release the oppressed, To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour’...
My father was a Congregationalist and my mother Anglican and after leaving home my brother joined the Baptists and I the Open Brethren. I married my Presbyterian wife in a Christian Missionary Alliance church, and during housejobs we were members of an Apostolic Pentecostal fellowship. Later we went to a...
'From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. ' Luke 12:48 Giving thanks is good for the soul, and a great way of lifting our spirits when we feel life's burdens...
The past decade has seen a growing acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex relationships as part of a range of patterns of behaviour within our society. Psychologists talk about a spectrum of sexual orientation. At one extreme there are people who have never had a homosexual thought in their lives, while...
A lesbian couple from Hollywood recently adopted twin girls in a transatlantic surrogacy deal involving six other adults. An Italian businessman and his Portuguese wife living in France had commissioned a British surrogate, Claire Austin, to have a baby on their behalf. A Greek doctor in Athens implanted the embryos,...
Helen Perry, a Jehovah's Witness from Shropshire, has become the first woman in Britain to have a baby using a frozen egg, due to a new anti-freeze method that increases egg survival rates. Over 100 babies have now been born from frozen eggs worldwide, and new results presented on 15...
