As Christian ministers we are vulnerable to the twin temptations of activism and stoicism, of deploying our energies or cutting…
National movements and gospel work
With the momentum of secular ideology in Western Culture, with its seemingly irresistible social force, and its harnessing of media…
No pang shall be mine?
John Wesley famously summarised the final outworking of the gospel in the hearts of those within early Methodism with the…
Varied Apostasy
Proclaiming honest doubt and articulating unbelief are not as new as we may think they are. One of the notes…
Hope and holidays
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom…
Independent booksellers and the future of Western thought
Over the summer months I have been reassessing my approach to reading. Books have been a major part of my…
Why we need Lamentations
The word ‘aftermath’ is so significant. It tells us something of a story that is past, something about where we…
