
So Tired – some post-vote, not particularly comic, doggerel
I’m not going to get into all the ins and outs of synodical votes this week. It’s all very sad, and for a whole range
I’m not going to get into all the ins and outs of synodical votes this week. It’s all very sad, and for a whole range
Church-planters probably never even consider factoring this in when they start. That was certainly the case for some friends of mine in Turkey. For who
No man is an island entire of itself said the prophetic priest-poet of old. Modernism and its western offspring, individualism, have done their utmost to prove
Having speculated a little about how the prevailing winds of modernist culture affect our perceptions of the present, I now want to think about how
There is a clear counter-argument for every point I want to make here. In fact, I sort of agree with every counter-argument myself. But I
The next section in our 2 Corinthians mini-series presented a particular challenge – because the whole section is about giving (in particular, Paul’s encouragement of
What makes a good archive or library? Well, as I’ve written elsewhere, I think there are at least 3 key ingredients. Excellent, unique and desirable
Maurice Castle is the wary protagonist of Graham Greene’s 1978 novel, The Human Factor. He works on the Africa desk for the British secret service. He
It is a great sadness to me that the word ‘pund’ does not exist. This is no doubt because the English ‘pundit’ is actually a corruption of
We’ve carried on wending our merry way though Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (from which I’ve posted before) where there have been gems and provocations aplenty. This week,
So… you want to write a runaway bestseller in 2012? Hoping to fill the cabin luggage of air-travellers the world over? Well, here is just
It is not just the victims of imperialism who easily identify its sins and blindspots. Those who have wielded and then lost empires are quick