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May 2023

May 31, 2023

Everything Everywhere All At Once: A Religious Movie?

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is a wild ride. I couldn’t figure out what I...

May 28, 2023

The Oneness Flowing From Pentecost

One of Jesus’ most treasured ambitions was to see true oneness among believers. John 17:21...

May 27, 2023

Forgiveness Builds the Bridges Between Us

At every level of relationship there is the inevitability of disappointment. Everyone gets let down...

May 19, 2023

The Higher Ways of God

Isaiah 55 is a particularly beautiful and oft-quoted passage, but is its message well understood?...

May 14, 2023

Do All Things Work Together for the Good?

Lacklustre spiritual lives are the result of confusing theology – if believers know that God...

May 06, 2023

Monarchy is for Peasants

I’m a Brit, which means I’m currently drowning in a sea of hype about King...

May 04, 2023

Praying with Yoda

A recent, comprehensive survey by Skylight and City Square Associates sought to take a measure...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

A Permanent State of Transition

Some of the most breath-taking places in the world are places of transition – where...

April 20, 2023

The Idolatry of Christian Nationalism

Christian Nationalism is an attempt to spread Christian values through legislation and force, thereby expanding...

April 18, 2023

Lying for Jesus?

Years of writing in discursive forums has given me a sensitive nose for impending excrement....

April 10, 2023

Did Not Our Hearts Burn Within Us?

I love the account of the conversation between Jesus and two disciples on the road...

April 08, 2023

Among the Scoffers?

In the church of my youth, there was a commonly shared assumption that if any...

April 06, 2023

The Trap of Easter Tradition

I’m not a lover of tradition. The school I attended in my youth was all...

March 2023

March 18, 2023

The Sin of Exclusion

Inclusion is a high bar, asking each of us to accept a degree of discomfort...

March 12, 2023

Which Mountain Do You Stand Upon?

It’s all too easy to confuse covenants, mixing Law with grace – so much so...

March 08, 2023

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom

In early 1997 I was staying in Cebu City, Philippines, serving as a missionary. Cebu...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Rethinking Being in Christ – Continue to Seek the Lord

Last time, I looked at what the Bible says it means to be in Christ...

February 26, 2023

Rethinking Being in Christ

Being ‘in Christ’ is one of those doctrines denominational groups interpret in different ways. It...

February 20, 2023

Politicising the Asbury Revival

God is good, all the time, but human beings have an unerring tendency to mess...

February 18, 2023

Don’t Judge the Asbury Revival

It is tempting to reframe the Asbury Revival in ways that are palatable to one’s...

February 13, 2023

The Importance of Collective Emotion in Worship

Worship is both a private and communal practice. We are all led individually when communing...

February 07, 2023

A Racist Element in the Contemporary Worship Debate?

Putting aside the back and forth of the contemporary worship discussion for a moment, I...

January 2023

January 29, 2023

The real problem with contemporary worship

In my last blog, titled The Importance of Emotion In Worship, I challenged the slew...

January 14, 2023

The Importance of Emotion in Worship

A regular talking point in both Progressive and Evangelical circles is criticism of performed, emotionally...

January 08, 2023

If God Invited You to a Party

I love sacred poetry, and particularly Persian writings from the Middle Ages. There’s one...

January 04, 2023

The Good Shepherd

I’ve been meditating on the words of Jesus in John chapter 10 today, marvelling at...

December 2022

December 17, 2022

Be it unto me according to thy word

There are several moments in the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that bring...

December 10, 2022

The Demise of American Christianity

It is commonly believed that the Religious Right emerged as an outraged response to the...

November 2022

November 15, 2022

Loving the Other

One of the Lord’s most consistent, heartfelt commands to the Israelites was that they love...

November 13, 2022

Exercises in self-value part 2 – breaking free from conditions of worth

How do we determine our worth? The world has an ugly method, describing a person’s...