Future Faith and ChatGPT

It is difficult these days to know if the news around AI is alarmist or alarming. Experts differ, arguments and … More

Preaching from a Place of Fullness

I have preached from a place of emptiness and from a place of fullness, and the experience of the one … More

I preach over 100 sermons annually. That amounts to more hours of preparation than I can hope to quantify, and … More

We recently moved to a new home and, given how much outdoor spaces are now being used for entertaining, we … More

Living in the last dim rays of gospel light in Western culture can give the church a strong sense of … More

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

Broadly, if not universally, these are extremely tough times to be a Pastor. Compared with the searing persecution of previous … More

Church families are returning to their buildings once again in the UK and Ireland, after a break of almost four … More

As the barriers erected by Covid 19 in the UK and Ireland start to lift a little, the prospect of … More

A measure of our new sense of normality is that the decision whether or not to run church services has … More