How do we rest in a restless world?
Alistair Chalmers
We live in a restless world. Our phones never sleep, our inboxes are never empty, and our diaries often look less like tools for wise stewardship and more like evidence in a court case proving how busy we are.
Even leisure has become hurried. We scroll, stream, shop, travel, exercise, and socialise, often not because we are truly resting, but because we are desperately trying to recover from lives that are running too fast.
Towards a more Biblical understanding of worship
Alistair Chalmers
Ask a group of Christians what comes to mind when they hear the word worship, and many will immediately think of music. We speak of a “worship service”, a “worship leader”, or “a time of worship”, often referring specifically to congregational singing. Singing is undoubtedly a precious and Biblical part of Christian worship. Yet if worship is reduced to music, we risk shrinking a rich Biblical reality into a single activity.
The Bible presents worship as something far bigger, deeper, and more comprehensive than a style of music or a particular experience on a Sunday morning.
Faithfulness in a 'post-Christian' Britain
There was a time when much of British public life at least assumed a broadly Christian moral framework. That did not mean Britain was ever truly a “Christian nation” in the Biblical sense, nor that previous generations were necessarily more godly. But Christian convictions about marriage, family, human dignity, sexuality, the value of life and the place of religion in public life were often understood, even by those who did not personally believe the gospel.
That landscape has changed.