No matter the story, there is usually a story beneath the story. Every news item is seldom as straightforward as it seems, whether it be domestic violence, fraudulent practice or […]

Before his conversion on the Damascus road (Acts 9.1-19), the apostle Paul would have found the idea of a crucified messiah abhorrent because of Deuteronomy 21.23 (‘for he that is […]

In explaining the cross, the apostle Paul demonstrates that it reveals both God’s righteousness and His mercy, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has […]

The book of Acts is well suited to be studied in a year of what we hope will be recovery like 2021. The affect of Acts is to bring about […]

Back in the 1970s many of us learned to be suspicious of ordination and all that went with it. The spectacle of some leaders being given special status among the […]

Peter Abelard (1079-1142) managed to get himself into theological and moral trouble throughout most of his life. When he wrote Sic et Non (‘Yes and No’) to argue that the […]

God is light with us, God is light behind us, whispered into time. Is his light abiding? Springing as a clay bird, his wondrous voice encircling, strikes me like a […]

Tolerance used to be defined as the ability to respectfully engage with others, even if you disagree with what they say. Nevertheless, it is clear that the new ‘tolerance’ is […]

John Stuart Mill is known as the great liberal political philosopher of nineteenth century England. He was also an atheist, but later in life he came to write of Christ: […]

The woman in the hijab was surprised.  She approached me after a Muslim/Christian debate and asked if she could talk to me.  I jokingly asked if her husband was present […]

Two perennial questions that most Christians will ask focus on the meaning and message of the Bible as a whole. They might be expressed as follows: How do I gain […]