The church was never meant to reflect the culture around it. We were meant to shape it. Yet so often we do the opposite. We read the mood of the world, absorb its anxieties, adopt its priorities, affirm its ideologies, and quietly match its temperature. We think we...
There’s a moment from my childhood I’ve never forgotten. I was about nine, and my family rented our first colour television set from Radio Rentals. Hardly anyone bought a set outright back then. They were expensive and unreliable, so you rented, and when...
Most of us spend a great deal of our lives trying to be understood. We choose our words carefully. We rephrase when we sense we’ve been misread. We come back to old conversations hoping that this time, with a clearer explanation, the picture will finally come...
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published the law of gravity. It’s been revised by Einstein and refined since, but the underlying principle has held. Step off a roof, you fall. The law doesn’t care whether you believe in it. The biblical writers, long before...
One of the most quoted lines in English spiritual writing comes from a fourteenth-century woman most people couldn’t tell you very much about. All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. It appears on greeting cards, fridge...
Every time I board a train, a few minutes before departure, the same announcement comes over the speakers. “If you’re not travelling with us, please leave the train now.” It’s said politely, almost as a courtesy. But underneath the politeness...
