Ours is a hyperbolic age, a time when words have become a devalued currency, where sentiment often masks a lack…
Pastors, Covid, and Criticism
As the barriers erected by Covid 19 in the UK and Ireland start to lift a little, the prospect of…
Distance – a poem
We will not embrace this day, but maintainour distance, a widening loss marked in time,but not in touch, each moved…
5 things that I can do about racism
Sometimes a problem seems so entrenched and so impossible to scale that giving up is the easiest option. That is…
Filtering for Repentance
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…
