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…
Making and mending pastoral mistakes
It is something we may not like to acknowledge to ourselves and to others, but as Pastors we make mistakes…
5 Pleas for Sung Worship
For many in my generation, worship style was war paint, a badge of one’s loyalty to the novel in public…
10 Thoughts in the wake of the Jarrid Wilson Tragedy
The news is becoming horribly familiar – a pastor who has been used of God, who has even counselled and…
Brothers, shall we weep?
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…
