Pastor Keith Waters has won his case after an employment tribunal ruled that he was discriminated against over a tweet he sent about LGBTQ pride.

Meanwhile, a Christian school has dropped its support for Christian charity Samaritan's Purse because of its leader Franklin Graham's Christian beliefs.

Learn more about Pastor Keith Waters' case win: https://christianconcern.com/news/pastor-who-warned-against-lgbtq-pride-events-wins-discrimination-case/

Learn more about the Christian school dropping support for Samaritan's Purse: https://christianconcern.com/news/school-cancels-support-for-samaritans-purse-after-one-complaint/

This week, 'The Family Sex Show' was cancelled - but is a theatre show providing sex education for all the family ever really going to be appropriate?

We're also joined by the Christian Legal Centre's Roger Kiska to talk about his legal opinion on conversion therapy - is a ban even legal?

Read more about The Family Sex Show: https://christianconcern.com/comment/is-a-sex-show-for-the-family-ever-really-appropriate/

Download and share Roger's legal opinion: https://christianconcern.com/resource/is-a-ban-on-conversion-therapy-legal-or-practical/

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Wilberforce Publications is pleased to announce the launch of Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government, the new book by Rev. Dr Joe Boot.

About the book

We are living in an era where the cult of the expert enables the increasing encroachment of civil government into areas of cultural and societal life where it does not belong. This growing statism must be countered by a distinctly Christian response. But what should a Christian proposal for social order look like? In this book, Dr Joseph Boot critiques the world as it is today and provides the basis for a Christian response to the socio-political crisis of our time. Ruler of Kings is contextual and current, but its solutions are biblically rooted and therefore enduring.

“Ruler of Kings reminds us that Christ’s sceptre of power rules over all of life, and that he will inevitably receive the inheritance of nations. A must read in our day.”

James R White, apologist, theologian and Director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, Phoenix, Arizona

About the author

Rev. Dr Joe Boot is Director of our Wilberforce Academy and Christian Concern's Head of Public Theology. Joe is a cultural theologian, leading Christian apologist, founding pastor of Westminster Chapel in Toronto, and founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity (EICC).

Find out more: https://www.wilberforcepublications.co.uk/ruler-of-kings

Buy your copy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916121136

Some senior church leaders - including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, and Baptist minister Steve Chalke - this week wrote a letter to the government urging it to ban 'conversion therapy' for 'trans people'. In the letter, they make the claim that "to be trans is to enter a sacred journey of becoming whole."

But is this true? Or does this message contradict foundational Christian teachings?

During this session of Round the Table, communications manager Paul Huxley is joined by three writers on the topic - Christian Concern's Dr Carys Moseley, Rev. Dr Ian Paul and Rev. Matthew Roberts - to analyse what the meaning behind this statement might really be.

Rev. Dr Ian Paul, author and writer at psephizo.com, is also a theologian and member of General Synod, Managing Editor at Grove Books, and Adjunct Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. You can read his response to the letter here: https://www.psephizo.com/sexuality-2/are-trans-people-on-a-sacred-journey/

Rev. Matthew Roberts is minister of Trinity Church York, part of the International Presbyterian Church. He wrote his response for The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/the-religion-of-self-worship/

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What's really behind the government's double U-turn on a 'conversion therapy' ban? Our panel reacts to the twists and turns of the last 24 hours.

We'll also be joined by special guest Dr David Mackereth, who refused to be compelled to use 'transgender pronouns'. His case was heard this week in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Join us on today's episode of Round the Table for a round-up of this week's big news.

Find out more about David's case on our website: https://christianconcern.com/news/doctor-sacked-for-refusing-to-lie-about-sex-and-gender/

In a culture where schools can’t always be relied on to help raise children in line with Christian faith, home education is a much-needed option.

Today’s Round the Table sees Tim Dieppe joined by Head of Education Steve Beegoo (a former headmaster of a Christian school) and by Janine Bell – a home educator and Coordinator for Classical Conversations UK, which supports homsechooling parents with resources and fellowship.

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A doctor who helped to save babies’ lives after their mothers regretted taking the first of two abortion pills has been vindicated after the General Medical Council (GMC) lifted a ban on him for offering the practice.

Throughout lockdown, Dr Dermot Kearney and his colleague helped to save over 30 babies’ lives after offering emergency support to women in crisis pregnancies. However, after a spurious complaint from an abortion industry director, Dr Kearney was banned by the GMC from helping any more women who might have regretted taking the abortion pill.

On today’s Round the Table, Amrita Kaur, a mother who sought the help of Dr Kearney, joined our Head of Public Policy, Tim Dieppe, as well as Dr Dermot Kearney himself, to tell the in-depth story of how the doctor who cared for forgotten and vulnerable women was banned from saving lives.

Learn more: https://christianconcern.com/cccases/dermot-kearney/

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Freedom of conscience has been restored for health and social care workers with the government's announcement of the end of vaccine mandates. The government had required all health and social care workers to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a requirement of employment, however has now dropped the condition after 90% of respondents to its consultation agreed the policy shouldn't be mandatory.

At Christian Concern, we don't believe anyone should be made to go against their conscience. In fact, we want to help equip you to speak the truth - boldly and lovingly. Which is why we've come up with our new Lent resource, True Love Speaks, to help guide your prayers and act to speak boldly to those around you about Christ over Lent.

On today's Round the Table, Christian Concern's Tim Dieppe will be joined by Communications Manager Paul Huxley, and the Christian Legal Centre's Navaid Syed, as they discuss why these freedoms are so important, and how you can be empowered to speak.

Find out more about vaccine mandates: https://christianconcern.com/comment/govt-to-end-vaccine-requirement-for-all-health-and-social-care/

Find out more about True Love Speaks: https://christianconcern.com/resource/true-love-speaks-lent-prayer/

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"He sets up kings and pulls down the mighty from their thrones and none can stay his hand."

Dr Joe Boot, who joins us today, was one of the Christian leaders in Canada who wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, warning him that "Jesus Christ is Lord and King and the ruler of the kings of the earth."

In Ukraine, we've seen another world leader acting violently, without regard for human life. So today on Round the Table, we consider what it means for Jesus to have all authority in heaven and earth.

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Christian parents Nigel and Sally Rowe were told by their sons' school that their children might be 'transphobic' after questioning whether it was right for two children in their classes to cross-dress.

But it's not just a matter of playing dress up. Nigel and Sally have won permission to challenge trans-affirming policies in English primary schools - which they believe cause harm to the very children they're meant to help.

Nigel and Sally join us on this week's Round the Table, along with X-Out-Louder Libby Littlewood, who formerly identified as a 'transgender man'.

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