Back to the Future?
In Chapter 10 of St Matthew’s Gospel, we find the second of Jesus’ great sermons in that Gospel. He has picked his 12 apostles and he is sending them out with a set of instructions. What does he say to...
View ArticleThinking about the colour of my skin
Galatians 3:28 is one of the better-known verses in the Bible: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”...
View ArticleChristians in a Post COVID-19 World?
As we begin another period of lockdown with the number of cases of COVID-19 and the number of deaths rising relentlessly, people are losing hope. There is concern about the effects on employment, the...
View ArticleWhy the news needs to be good
The Queen rarely makes comment on matters of public debate, but a few weeks ago she gave a message of support to the British newspaper industry, praising traditional media outlets. She said that...
View ArticleEvery little helps
It’s November and I’m sad. Over the years I have come to dread November, because if anything goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong in November. Perhaps this was a self-fulfilling prophecy, perhaps...
View ArticleHow many too questions are too many questions?
Like a good evangelical Christian, every morning my day starts with quiet time. The Lord’s prayer, then other prayers, setting my day up, giving it over to God. And from prayer I go to Scripture,...
View ArticleWhere does our comfort come from?
You could describe 2020 in lots of ways; disastrous, tragic, or calamitous, maybe shocking, surprising or unexpected. It’s certainly been unusual, never mind historic and of course, that word that is...
View Article‘Fake news’
In my early years as a professional Geologist and a Christian, I was dismayed and puzzled by the defence of the literalist interpretation of Genesis 1 stating that scientists were in a conspiracy of...
View ArticleTHE VIRTUAL ROAD TO JERICHO
When I was a small boy living in a rural County Down bungalow in the 1960s, the question posed by the gospel narrative, ‘Who is my neighbour?’ seemed easy to answer. The Ferguson family lived a field...
View ArticlePS…February festivals
Fasting and feasting holidays are the events in the Jewish calendar around which life is orientated. Many of these ‘festivals’ have their origin in the laws which God gave to the people of Israel...
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