Nov 21st 2012 -
While much of the world (within and outside of church walls and for a variety of reasons) weeps over women bishops and with so many saying they are ashamed of their church, I want to tell you a story that will hopefully challenge you to pride in the church rather than embarrassment. It has been believed, via a blog that hit...
Nov 19th 2012 -
If the stuff that is in the Bible isn't true, if it doesn't work today and if Jesus didn't really mean what he said - I'm not interested in any of it. Thanks, but you can keep your rituals and your moral teaching. However, I believe what's in the Bible is true, it does work today and Jesus really meant what...
Nov 16th 2012 -
Imagane you were stopped from pursuing your image of external success, what would happen? I've previously drawn so much comfort, identity and strength from my achievements and future goals. Sometimes those things have shattered, either through my own iniquity or more unnervingly with no obvious rhyme or reason. When the façade has cracked, I've suddenly become less sure of what I was once so certain. Aged...
Nov 15th 2012 -
She was walking so close to the flames you couldn’t watch without holding your breath. Every step she took, embers sparked under her feet as they stumbled across the hot charred wood around the fringes of the fire. She was carrying too much, that was clear. A pile of heavy books stacked in her boney arms, an elbow jutting awkwardly with...
Nov 14th 2012 -
Justin Welby received some pretty big news last week - he’s going to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury - in his words, an ‘astonishing and exciting’ opportunity. He has until March to tie up any loose ends in Durham and move on to his next position. I wonder what he will say to the clergy and others he leads...
Nov 12th 2012 -
When my Uncle Kevin was at university in 1968 he was in the London Bach Choir. One November evening at choir practice, the conductor said, “If you are interested in doing something fun come back here on Tuesday at 11pm. You’ll find out what it is when you get here!” Always up for a laugh, the 19 year old Kevin arrived...
Nov 9th 2012 -
The Clapham Sect were individuals from the early 1800’s who came together as a group of people who passionately believed in a big gospel; a restorative gospel. They were people with a holy dissatisfaction at churches that were becoming stagnant, and a world that had a huge blind spot to needs and brokenness. This group of men and women was made up...
