One of the greatest acts of Christian mislabelling is our ongoing use of the term ‘personal sin’. Ours is a…
Pastoral Repentance and Resolution
There is much that is notional and fleeting in the approach of a New Year, and there is a great…
Clive James’ ‘Sentenced to Life’, an appreciation
An oft cited truism is that the Victorians viewed sex as taboo and death as commonplace, while the modern age has…
A Pastor in Therapy
In February of this year I burned out. It was a surprising, disconcerting, and ultimately enlightening experience. The full account…
Handling encouragement in pastoral ministry
The swing of a pendulum can be a dangerous thing, correctives can oversteer away from one error and into another,…
Book review: Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
Christianity and creativity can have a fairly complex and conflicted relationship. On the one hand there is the sheer volume…
October 2019
(written on the occasion of new abortion laws being introduced in Northern Ireland) Mid-autumn clear, the October morning colours cold…
