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August 2, 2019
Competitiveness is supposed to oil the wheels of a successful economy, we keep hearing. Yet Christianity, like most faith traditions, stresses the importance of cooperation. Competitiveness […]
July 31, 2019
It feels like I’ve been campaigning for social and ecological justice nearly all my adult life. I have tried to criticise what I consider to be […]
July 19, 2019
This post is a sermon about the Gospel reading for 7th July: Luke 10:1-11, 16-20. It follows on from the sermon I published on 29 June 2019. […]
July 17, 2019
Mark Field MP has attracted attention to himself again, describing some homeless people as ‘undesirables’. This post argues that from a Christian perspective nobody is an […]
July 2, 2019
The Modern Church Conference in July this year is exploring ‘Theology in the Public Square’. When the theme of the conference was agreed, I was to […]
June 18, 2019
‘It’s time for Christians to speak out against Boris Johnson’ declares George Pitcher in an article in the Guardian. This post summarises Pitcher’s argument and argues that […]
June 7, 2019
According to Matthew’s Gospel some of the people Jesus healed were moonstruck. Needless to say, the people who translate the Bible into English don’t use this word. […]
June 2, 2019
Some passages in the Bible seem really obscure. To understand them, we need to know the context. This post is a sermon based on Luke 9:51-62, […]
May 25, 2019
Certain species revert to a non-procreative default position when they sense that their collective life is under threat. But not so with human beings. Against all […]