Tag: Christian living
-
Moving home and thoughts of heaven
During the past four months my family and I have been contemplating a ministry move which has entailed relocating around 60 miles from where we have lived for the past (almost) eleven years. New ministry, new schools and community, a new church family, and a new neighbourhood are the fresh fields and novel mountains we…
-
Interpassive Piety
Convenience can be a costly thing, and the assistance offered by technology can have an adverse effect on our ability to function as people. This is a truth well acknowledged in the wider world where the prevalence of apps, algorithms, and hacks can truncate our ability to order our own lives, or to hone our…
-
Learning the deeper lessons
These are undoubtedly the strangest of days. We are in a state of upheaval and disruption, and we have no idea when or if normal service might resume. We are living in a cultural pause, an on-air silence which becomes more uncomfortable by the day, an interval which is quickly seeming to be longer than…
-
The pain of personal sin
I want to think about sin, sinning, and my sense of self. So often my mental processing of sin is impulsive, a kind of muscle memory which, in my worst moments, reflexively rebels against the right and towards the wrong; or it is tragically retrospective, picking up the shrapnel of self-detonation. These are important issues,…
THINKING PASTORALLY 