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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),...

September 2024

September 07, 2024

What is ‘Original Sin’?

I recently asked friends on social media what they believe about ‘original sin’ and got...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

Christ is Risen

After a day of horror and another of numbing shock, each of Jesus’ disciples was...

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...

January 2024

January 14, 2024

The Book of Job – A Rod to Beat Ourselves Up With

The purpose of this article is to expose the devastating harm in the common, Evangelical...

January 05, 2024

God’s Favourite Track on His Favourite Album

I don’t usually write about personal times of prayer but want to share an experience...

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...

November 2022

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...

November 03, 2022

Break free from self-imposed limitations

There are always people willing to tell you not to dream. Many of these people...

March 2022

March 18, 2022

The Sin of Self-Judgement

In the first article of this series on judgement, I established several foundational ideas: ...

March 08, 2022

Rethinking Judgement

The Bible warns us about indulging in judgement, but why would that be? In my...

November 2021

November 09, 2021

The Problem is Calvinism – Part 2

In part one, I established a baseline argument – that Calvinism is fundamentally harmful in...

November 06, 2021

The Problem is Calvinism – Part 1

At the age of nineteen I was keenly aware that my spirituality lacked vitality. I...

October 2021

October 10, 2021

Rethinking Humility

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

October 06, 2021

Our Most Important Relationship Is Not With God

"Our Most Important Relationship Is Not With God" was stated to me by a wonderful, spiritual...