One of the many vulnerabilities of the contemporary evangelical church is a stubborn mistaking of quantity for quality. This can…
Preaching under the smile and the smiting rod
As I write these words, our home has descended into the silence of sleep on a Saturday night, and I…
Some implications of an empty pulpit
Whether your cup is half empty or half full in the current global crisis, whether you credit or descry online…
A Certain Sound through Preaching
How are we to answer the exigencies and anxieties of the hour? What tone of voice and approach should we…
A Certain Sound through Theology
Earlier this week I posted about the danger of abdicating our responsibility to speak clearly to our world about God.…
An uncertain sound
There is a famous anecdote about a church producing some signage for the gable wall of their building, with the…
Learning the deeper lessons
These are undoubtedly the strangest of days. We are in a state of upheaval and disruption, and we have no…
