Misunderstanding the Church

Thomas Mann’s phrase that ‘everything is politics’ seems undeniably true in our society in the second decade of the twenty … More

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 … More

Earlier this week I posted about the danger of abdicating our responsibility to speak clearly to our world about God. … More

At the moment it seems like everything is interim. The decisions that we were agonising over a fortnight ago about … More

The swing of a pendulum can be a dangerous thing, correctives can oversteer away from one error and into another, … More

As Christian ministers we are vulnerable to the twin temptations of activism and stoicism, of deploying our energies or cutting … More

Proclaiming honest doubt and articulating unbelief are not as new as we may think they are. One of the notes … More

I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided; who owned That half a rood of rock, … More

When we prize the interests of party above those of the whole community, when we make our perspective prescriptive, our … More

One of the best advertising slogans I have witnessed appeared in the very worst of places. In the furred arterial … More