We live in a golden age of Christian content, but at the same time it is a fragile age for Christian community.
Sermons stream instantly. Conferences draw thousands. Podcasts, platforms, and personalities shape how many believers think about faithfulness.
None of this is inherently bad - God has used gifted teachers far beyond their local contexts for the good of the church. But there is a quiet danger: that the idea of church becomes more compelling than the people of church.
'An angular Messiah is our only hope'
Having devoured Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist (2022) with fascination, I wasn’t going to miss reading his latest, The Traitors …