I've written on this topic before, but I want to write again following a meeting last night arranged in Cambridge by the Faraday Institu...

How do faith, hope and love work together in prayer? Should our emphasis be on whisking up fervent faith? Or should we just hope for a good ...

Sometimes Jesus just surprises us. Sometimes we surprise ourselves. Perhaps both of these things happen more often when we are open, and act...

Sciencism and religiology do not exist for very good reasons. Neither would be an appropriate endeavour, both would be doomed to failure. It...

April's Synchroblog asks how we'd be affected if part (or all) of the Bible was myth. I chose to consider the creation accounts in G...

Leaders in the church, Part 5 < Leading, Matthew 1:1-17  |  Index  |  Herod and the astrologers > Life will throw us curveballs fro...

Hurricane Sandy has caused devastation and continues to bring more trouble as it heads into Canada. Why do disasters like this happen? We co...

Science and faith sometimes appear to be at war. But is that inevitable? A conference in Switzerland is examining these issues and draws tog...

A power cut was soon solved once the engineer was called. At first he arranged a temporary fix, then he brought in a team to make a permanen...

Responding to a post from Felicity Dale, here is my story of spending time in the wilderness. For me it spanned a ten year period and began ...

How do science and faith stack up against one another as ways of knowing the truth? Science provides truth about the physical universe while...

What does it mean to be chosen? How will we be judged? What must I do to be saved? These questions and others like them are often answered w...

Can I have faith and accept science too? Is that an unreasonable position to hold? Recent discussions on Jesus Creed have provoked me to wri...

< 5th December 2011 | Index | 3rd January 2012 > Beginning with a thought about the nature of the Most High, we were led to consider...

Is it possible to write a short statement that captures who we are in Christ? It will need to describe much more than what we believe; inste...

< The fulfilment of the law | Index  | No later items > This is the third post in a series on Henry Drummond 's essay on love. H...

There is a notable lack of church planting in the West and an abundance of it in parts of Asia. Are we in the West doing something wrong? Ar...

Almost a hundred dead in Norway following a bomb and a shooting spree, and a great singer/songwriter dead before the age of thirty. Two trag...

Some writers and commentators tell us that we can do nothing unless we know Christ's love for us and rest in that love. Others tell us t...