Graham Ford

Let me start with a health warning – understanding our position within Biblical prophecy can be very difficult, not because of the inaccuracy of scripture, but because of the very strong bias that we all have to favour our own prior beliefs and a tendency to only look at the …

For many the Book of Revelation at the end of the Bible is a mysterious and scary book.  It was given so that mankind would know what would happen after Jesus was ascended.  Many people believe that it was written about events happening at the time it was written and …

Recently, JCM published an article on the subject of violence, in which the teacher, whom I respect, asserted that the Christian approach was never to return violence with violence, for Christ did not in his life, even when he was going to unjustly arrested and convicted. I said to JCM’s …

Apart from its internal fractures and stresses, the Church, or the Christian world, faces two major ideological challenges, Islam and secularism.  When seen from a global, rather than a Western perspective, the most potent of these is Islam. To understand why Islam is such a challenge, it must be understood …

The church worldwide has two critical issues to deal with at the same time: the challenge of militant Islam and the challenge of secularist atheism.  These issues are critical because both militant Islam and secularist atheism are operating in a coordinated attack not only on Christians but also on the …

The violence, and incitement to violence, directed by Egyptian Muslims against the Copts — especially those organized sectarian campaigns by the Muslim Brotherhood and related groups — are crimes against humanity and should be treated as such by the international community. We know that a few drops of lemon will …

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said the following remarkable thing: ‘Love your enemies’. It is no secret that down the centuries Christians and their Church leaders have struggled with this verse. What does it mean and how far do you take it? Does it mean, for example, that …

At the end of May in Belgium, a knife wielding man killed three people, two of whom were police officers. A number of eye witnesses reported the man was shouting ‘Allah Akbar’. This was later denied by the police. This kind of denial is all too common in the West, …

There is a saying among Christians: ‘the family that prays together stays together.’ Well, that is not the practice in every family, as this news item indicates: ’17-year-old Christian girl was murdered in Pakistan after being tied down and strangled to death by a Muslim family before her father’s own …

Many people have stated that the Bible teaches that the creation was made 6,000 years ago in 6 days. The result of science is that creation started 13.7 billion years ago while the species of whom this author is a member emerged around 150,000 years ago. If we believe the …