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March 2025

March 25, 2025

The Biological Reality of Being Intersex

In the strictest biological terms, sex is dichotomous (a person is either male or female),...

February 2025

February 16, 2025

When Politics and Values Clash

There are few things more tribal than our political affiliations. Groupthink and confirmation bias thrive...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

Difficult Conversations Are Part of Healing

When someone hurts us, the most complete expression of mercy has at least two moving...

June 2024

June 25, 2024

Who Gets to Sit on Jesus’ Right and Left?

Those of us who were brought up in church and later started thinking for ourselves...

June 15, 2024

Why are Christians Scared of inclusion?

In recent months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of folk in the Evangelical community...

March 2024

March 23, 2024

Is ‘Sin’ a List of Forbidden Activities?

Sin is such an emotionally laden term, associated with heaviness and accusation – the angry...

February 2024

February 03, 2024

Being Kind to Our Younger Selves

When I look back at some of the dumb stuff I’ve said and done in...

November 2023

November 13, 2023

Authentic Christians and Honest Heretics

Before the age of social media, accusations of heresy were far less common among believers....

October 2023

October 29, 2023

Thought-police? No thanks!

How do you apply Philippians 4:8? Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever...

August 2023

August 26, 2023

Nurturing a Sense of Self

Self is an interesting concept from a Christian point of view. On the one hand,...

May 2023

May 27, 2023

Forgiveness Builds the Bridges Between Us

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

March 2023

March 18, 2023

The Sin of Exclusion

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

January 2023

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...

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...

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...

September 2022

September 14, 2022

Building Better Communities

Two recent experiences have made me realise that we are not subject to the whims...

August 2022

August 19, 2022

The Basis of Respect

The word ‘respect’ summons an array of potential meanings, the most obvious of which might...

June 2022

June 28, 2022

Progressive or Evangelical?

Over the past year or so I’ve been writing for Patheos, several people have told...

June 03, 2022

What is Lacking in Christ’s Suffering?

I very much believe that through the sacrifice of Jesus we are given everything we’ll...

May 2022

May 27, 2022

The Problem of Persecution

Christians have a weird relationship with persecution, often speaking and acting as if it only...

May 21, 2022

Lean Hard Into That Rudder

I’ve always found James’ teaching on taming the tongue exciting and bewildering in equal measure....

April 2022

April 17, 2022

What Jesus wanted his disciples (and us) to know – Part 2

Last time we established that as the disciple closest to Jesus, John wrote about him...

April 15, 2022

What Jesus wanted his disciples (and us) to know

Of the four Gospels in the New testament, I have a particular fondness for the...

April 06, 2022

The Choices That Steer Your Life

Someone I respect once said: ‘If you want to know which direction your life...

December 2021

December 07, 2021

Understanding Progressive Christianity, Part 2 – Sexual Integrity

In the first instalment of this series, I looked at the necessity of deconstruction. The...

November 2021

November 26, 2021

The Most Important Lesson My Father Taught Me

I was brought up in the faith, and as a very young boy, used to...

November 25, 2021

For the Avoidance of Dishonour

A personal reflection: I often write about the church of my upbringing, highlighting the messages...

November 02, 2021

Here’s to the Atheists!

It’s easy to sneer at those who’ve reached opposite conclusions to the ones we hold...

October 2021

October 10, 2021

Rethinking Humility

What do you think of when you hear the word humility? What does it look...