Nigel Biggar

Should Christians ever celebrate victory in war if war necessarily entails killing? The answer is that it depends on the war

During Providence‘s Christianity & National Security Conference 2022, Nigel Biggar discusses the history and Biblical perspective on empires, and advocates…

For more than a century, the Royal Air Force has made a vital contribution to the military defense of the West.

On reading Stephen Baskerville’s view of Brexit and its wake, I hear the sound of an axe grinding. I can’t tell what the axe is, but its grinding is loud and unmistakeable: it sounds through a relentless lack of charity. Quite what’s hounding Dr Baskerville, I do not know and will not presume to speculate. But the distorting effects are right up-front, and I must gainsay them.

The carnage one hundred years ago on the Somme was appalling. And because of Haig’s excessive strategic ambition, it was inefficiently appalling. But that didn’t make it futile.

Christian ethicists should read less moral theology and political philosophy and more history.