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Gordon met Gillian, now Dave’s just met Elizabeth. Mr Cameron is our new Prime Minister and the end of the world is nigh, or at least it is if you believe some people I know. In the age of slacktivism, facebook is littered with friends – even the Christian ones – “crying”, “afraid”, “mourning”, “doomed” [...]

If one thing’s bound to wind me up, it’s people of any political stripe trying to claim Jesus for their cause. I know plenty of leftists – it’s an occupational hazard of the eternal student – and I’m sick to the back teeth of the argument that goes, “We’re nice to people, the right wingers [...]

In the news today, Catholic adoption agency Catholic Care has won the right to continue operating, without complying with the Government’s 2007 Sexual Orientation Regulations. This means they’re allowed to continue their work without offering kids to gay couples on an equal basis, which would contravene their Catholic beliefs. CC is the last of the [...]

I’ve just started writing for the Student Christian Movement. I’ll post something whenever they ask me to, which should hopefully be roughly every fortnight. It’ll obviously be on Christian matters, so there may be a bit less of that on here. In fact, you may have noticed rather a glut of cycling posts on here [...]

1) I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 1 Timothy 2:12 In this letter to another church leader, the big question (apart from “Why is this more hated than the previous verses about genocide?”) is whether Paul (yes, this is one of Paul’s [...]

3) Do not allow a sorceress to live (Exodus 22:18) I have a confession here: On the Ship of Fools poll, I voted for this verse. Sometimes, a well-meaning bible verse can be taken out of context and abused until it leaves a stain on the bible itself, and this is certainly one of them. [...]

A while ago, I blogged that irreverent Christian website Ship of Fools was searching for people’s least favourite, most despised verse of the bible. Now, as reported by the Telegraph, they’ve done it. Here’s the list from Ship of Fools themselves, or you can hang around and read it right here. In reverse order, here [...]

I preached this on my last Sunday evening at church, August 23rd.  The readings were John 6:57-69 and Ephesians 6:10-20. I once knew two pastors, who’d both moved into new churches in the past couple of years. We were all together and chatting about church stuff, and I asked one of them how he’d been [...]

I preached this at a lunchtime service a few weeks ago, but have only just got it online. I actually preached without notes, so what you see here is a summary from my original script. The reading was Revelation 1:1-8 Mike’s called me in to do the sermon for the last Wednesday lunchtime service of [...]

Over at his blog, Graham wrote about how we see our bodies, as assets to be celebrated or as limiting factors to be overcome. He linked this to doping in sports, which I dealt with in a previous post, but he also linked this to how Christianity relates to our bodies. I quote: are we [...]