Do you believe in hell? I don’t. Many other Christians too have rejected the notion, believing it to be a medieval concept designed perhaps to frighten ordinary people into obedience. The notion of hell for me is logically, psychologically and theologically incoherent and makes for terrible evangelism – God is Love, believe that or else!… Read more

A lot of Christians tell me they don’t do politics – they might read the papers, bemoan the state of where we are and how we got here, and vote accordingly. But they ‘don’t do politics’. They don’t want their ministers to either. They want to talk about Jesus on a Sunday! They want to… Read more

A blog about free speech is a difficult thing to write at the moment – coming in as it does so soon after the awful murder of Charlie Kirk, the American influencer. It is written in reaction to that tragedy but most of all it is written as a response to the partisan, cruel and… Read more

Whether or not we are Christians, whether or not we know the story of Pontius Pilate ambivalently handing Jesus over for crucifixion against his own better judgement, we all know the ominous undertones of the phrase ‘to wash your hands’ of something. The phrase has entered everyday language as a way of expressing the intent… Read more

A major topic of conversation at the moment across the media is the appearance of the flag of St George. It is popping up on bridges, on lamp posts, and on small (and sometimes fairly big) roundabouts and no doubt lots of other places too. It’s the sort of thing you only typically see during… Read more