Regular Columns

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  Comment

  Scrambled eggs and evangelism?

  My one true culinary accomplishment is scrambled eggs. I am, given ...

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  Defending our faith

  Dishing the dirt: is modern archaeology just garbage?

  Archaeology is rubbish. Or at least that’s the title of an ...

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  Politics analysed

  Let’s talk about robots...

  A few weeks ago, I attended a round table with a ...

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  The Red Carpet

  A tale of two trees?

  1917 begins and ends at a tree. In the middle is ...

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  Comment

  Need or want?

  Evangelical churches are busy places, aren’t they? There is so much ...

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  Culture watching

  Billie Eilish: pop queen for an anxious age

  You still might not have heard of Billie Eilish, so let ...

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  Comment

  Can systems be sinful?

  Sin is individual. It is individual people who commit sin – ...

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  Evangelicals and catholics

  The tale of two popes?

  When Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 nobody could have imagined ...

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  Comment

  Love in the time of Coronavirus

  Maybe… Maybe not… Maybe…
  But maybe not. ...

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  Pastoral care

  Subverting success

  ‘I’m aiming to be successful.’ It’s a phrase I’ve heard in ...

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  Comment

  Online sermons

  Who are those sermons for? You ...

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  History

  A passion for purple

  In 1856, English chemistry student William
  Henry Perkin (1838–1907) was ...

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  Music

  The song on the lips of the people

  Recently I attended a church where we sang just the right ...

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  The Secular Study

  A plea for more humility

  Why do human interactions go wrong with such frequency? Why do ...