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Allow me to introduce you to Secular Sam.
Secular Sam is very successful. He has a good job, a nice girlfriend, a beautiful apartment, a new car, and excellent health. He's humorous, intelligent, and personable. Secular Sam is also a Christian, and actually quite an active one. He has an evangelical background (though he's chosen to leave behind some of the embarrassing bits of it), is theologically conservative, and believes in the authority of Scripture.
At the beginning of April Life Charity were fortunate enough to be chosen as one of only seventy organisations to receive a Government grant (with money from the "Tampon Tax") to help in their important work of helping women and their babies in crisis.
Life has provided practical support to vulnerable women facing crisis pregnancies for the last 45 years.
AN Islamic mixed school has been forced to pull an advert for a male science teacher after claims it could potentially breach equalities legislation by ruling out women.
Salafi Independent School, based in Coventry Road, Small Heath, caters for more than 150 Muslim pupils aged from five to 11.
It recently posted the job advert on Twitter, stating: "The Salafi Independent School is now recruiting a part-time male science & Islamic Studies teacher."
A number of online services are charging "divorced" Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in "halala" Islamic marriages, a BBC investigation has found. Women pay to marry, have sex with and then divorce a stranger, so they can get back with their first husbands.
Farah - not her real name - met her husband after being introduced to him by a family friend when she was in her 20s. They had children together soon afterwards but then, Farah says, the abuse began.
"The first time he was abusive was over money," she tells the BBC's Asian Network and Victoria Derbyshire programme.
UK passports should allow people to define themselves as "X" as an alternative to male or female, campaigners have said.
Stonewall, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights group, said it would benefit people who face difficulties at passport control.
The government said it was reviewing the way gender is marked in official documents, including passports.
Whether in supplication to God or as a confession of sins past, prayer has played a central role in the life of the church since its inception.
After all, what more traditionally religious sight is there than someone on their knees, deep in quiet communion with their God?
But a church in southern England is propelling the act of praying into the digital age by setting up a text-a-prayer service.
A Christian charity has given its backing to a government programme designed to help parents in unemployed families who don't get on.
Ministers say children whose mums and dads are at loggerheads are less likely to do well at school.
The Department for Work and Pensions' analysis suggests that three-quarters of children in workless families fail to reach the expected level at GCSE.
A Christian who was fired after offering to pray with patients ahead of their surgery has claimed she was unfairly dismissed.
Sarah Kuteh was ordered to leave her position at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent, following a series of patient complaints.
One patient felt Kuteh spent more time talking about religion than completing a pre-operative questionnaire, according to statements submitted at an employment tribunal being held in Ashford, Kent.
To the Faithful of the Gafcon movement and friends from Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria and Chairman, the Gafcon Primates Council.
My dear people of God,
In times of anxiety and distress, I am sure many of us have found this promise to be a great comfort:
'For I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope' (Jeremiah 29:11).
An effective way to determine the fundamental nature of a thing is to compare it with something that is similar, but different. For example, what is an oval? It's an elongated circle. Let's examine gender dysphoria, the underlying condition of identifying as transgender, with a similar but different body identity problem.
Transgender advocates tell us the encompassing feeling about incongruity between transsexuals' body and self-concept is unlike anything else humans can experience. Thus, they demand very intentional public acceptance.