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• Sound Bites and the Death of Poetry

  

  A confession to verbal GBHEarlier this morning I was speaking on national radio on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Prayer for the Day’. With only 1 minute 50 seconds to play... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Unexpected Mercy

  

  A review of ‘The church of mercy’ by Pope FrancisYears ago, when I announced the subject for my dissertation at Spurgeon’s College, it had to go to the... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• As Scary As…

  …waiting for a busWaiting for a bus is one of those typically British things which is a byword for monotony. When the handover took place for the London... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Gallery of Grace

  

  More from the vocabulary of faithSome of you will have read that I have been preaching through a series on the ‘vocabulary of faith’. Last week I was preaching... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Landlord Walks into a Church

  

  Our survey saidBy now most people will have caught up with last week’s survey on job satisfaction, with clergy coming out at Number One and landlords at Number... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Fiddling About on Twitter…

  

  Or getting the sermon written?Last week I had a particularly challenging sermon to write. This week is an equally challenging topic – not least because of its... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Dying

  A sermon on the vocabulary of faithA couple of months ago, I started preaching through a series on the ‘vocabulary of faith’ – examining how Christians use thos... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Little Owl Finds His Voice

  

  The launch of an audio bookOn September 28th last year I wrote a little story, the Tale of The Little Owl, in aid of children’s charity Momentum. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Product So Good…

  …it sells itselfI have not yet seen the Lego movie. That does not stop me feeling that I know all about it though. The adverts, the trailers, the buzz on... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Active Speech

  

  Creating a verbal landscapeIn my previous post I was talking about the use of language to create landscape. That landscape can be anything from a rolling vista... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Mind the Gap

  

  On Dahlberg’s “Memory Wound”I like to create things with words – landscapes of the mind. Sometimes they are soothing – like undulating hills stretching off... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Digital Accountability

  

  Caribbean styleQuite often the conversation, either on or off-line, turns to the toxic nature of the digital space. Last year I was asked about it on Premier... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Carrying on …

  

  Where excellence and ordinary collideHospitals are not miracle factories, where every patient is ‘made better’. Nor are they staffed by ‘angels’ who can do no... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Twenty Questions for You…

  

  ….on ‘Open Bible PrinciplesSo, Steve Chalke has been at it again – rattling cages and shaking foundations as he has done before. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Peace?

  

  A presence rather than an absenceOn the brink of a very testing week, I was preaching on ‘what Christians mean by peace’ this morning. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On the Right Track

  

  Unreached brain territoryI don’t know if it still exists, but there used to be a mission agency known as the ‘Regions Beyond Missionary Union’. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Community – a Yearning…

  

  …in search of a theologyAt present I am working through a series of sermons on the ‘vocabulary of faith’. Those of you who read ’52 hertz church ‘will know... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Awkward Conversation…

  

  …and how to have itMost of us are pretty good at saying encouraging things to each other. Without too much effort, we can bring encouraging words to our lips... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Not Lonely…

  

  …but linkedEvery once in a while we supplant the evening sermon in our church with a ‘question panel’. Last night the questions were on ‘threats and... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Steer Clear of Books

  All that new fangled print technologyEarlier today I was driving through heavy traffic whilst listening to a ‘celebrity’ interview. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY