Blog
January 20, 2022
Thanks to all who joined us for a fascinating final lecture of our Christ and Controversy lecture series.
January 18, 2022
Here follows a fabulous paper written by Anthony Woollard, editor of Signs of the Times, which was discussed at the meeting of the Modern Church Forum […]
January 15, 2022
This is a summary of what Jesus was up to between his baptism by John and his final journey into Jerusalem. It was my sermon for […]
January 14, 2022
Like many conferences planned for 2020, the Modern Church conference was postponed and re-organized to fit a digital medium. This was, for the most part, a […]
January 13, 2022
We live in strange times. Who would have thought that Modern Church – founded at the end of the 19th century (1898) – would be a […]
December 31, 2021
When I was half my present age, we would take our children to a local park. We’d carefully hold hands, looking both ways as we crossed […]
December 25, 2021
‘Respair’ is a very old word that one hardly ever uses these days. The opposite of ‘despair’, ‘to respair’ is to have fresh hope, and to […]
December 23, 2021
Rickety (adjective) = liable to collapse or come clattering down, first used in the 1680s, derived from rickets (noun) via the notion of weak, unhealthy, feeble […]
December 21, 2021
Christmas carols. I love the tunes. But the more theology I read, the more unhappy I become with the words. There are exceptions, but most fit […]