Yesterday, the government announced tighter restrictions for England, in response to seeing the number of COVID infections rising rapidly. Without this, according to the chief health advisors, we could be seeing 50,000 new cases each day and 200 deaths each day, by mid October. The new measures, however, do not bring any further restrictions for […]
The question that I am hearing a lot at the moment is… When Will Actual, Physical Sunday Meetings Begin Again? Good question. The answer is, we have no idea. As things stand right now, the government regulations state that religious meetings may go ahead in line with the capacity of the place of worship and […]
I have just had two weeks annual leave. This weekend I began to think about coming back to work and I started to feel my heart sink at the prospect. I should probably back up a bit and maybe even rephrase that. We were meant to be driving to France and Spain and doing a […]
Much of this blog has been swimming around my head for a while and, after listening to a recent Bible Project podcast[1], I decided it was time to try to gather my thoughts into something coherent and put them down for you. In some ways it builds my recent talk on Communion and also talk […]
We are all created in the image of God. No human being is greater than any other human being. No human being ever has the right to treat another human being as anything less than the image of God. If you are White, Black, Asian, Inuit, LGBTQ+, if you have learning disabilities or physical disabilities, […]
On Saturday 30th May 2020, my son, Reuben, was wakeboarding and landed a trick called a “Tantrum” (a), breaking his femur in the process. Properly broke it. No half measures. Air Ambulance, the works. In that moment all pretence was stripped away. He was not Reuben the wakeboarder, or Reuben the teenager or Reuben the […]
“We were made so that God could have fun together with us – so we could swing and move and dance to the movement of life” – Douglas Campbell, Pauline Dogmatics, 83. The world is in a mess. There is sickness and suffering. There is injustice and pain. There is oppression and persecution. The environment teeters […]
“In Revelation, Jesus is a prize-fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is the guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.” – Mark Driscoll It is hard […]
Pistis Christou In Paul’s letters there is phrase that has caused a lot of argument among scholars in recent years. The phrase is pistis christou and, when you break it down to its component parts, pistis means “faith/faithfulness/trust/belief” and Christou (obviously) means Christ. Within Reformed and Evangelical circles this is normally translated as “faith in Christ” but many top […]
We Are All Wrong When I was a young Christian, having been discipled in a good Baptist church, I knew everything. No, really, I did. As have grown in years and (allegedly) wisdom, I seem to have less of a grip on things than I did. In fact, the more that I have studied theology, the […]