Walking through a local park recently, I had my ear buds in and was listening to music – all sorts of music, from secular to sacred, whatever popped up next in my fairly random music library. Eventually I found myself listening to a series of modern worship songs, one after the other. Now they’re great Read more

Stephen Fry, in conversation with Ann Widdecombe, once famously described the ten commandments as ‘the hysterical believings of a group of desert tribes’. He went on, ‘these desert tribes have stored up more misery for mankind than any other group of people in the history of the planet, and they’re doing it to this day’. Read more

Are you a Mary or a Martha? We like our binaries don’t we? Heaven or hell? Good or bad? Saint or sinner? Doers or thinkers? In analysis parlance, activists or reflectors? There is on the surface something binary about the Gospel reading; Mary’s like this, Martha is like that – we tend to identify with Read more

Who was Nicodemus? Before I get into that can I recommend you check out the recent American production, The Chosen, a magnificent multi-series about the life of Jesus. Produced by Dallas Jenkins, he and his team have chosen (pardon the pun) some incredibly authentic actors to play the key roles – my own favourites include Read more

For millions of Christians around the world, the central act of their worshipping life is the Eucharist. They remember, and they obey Jesus’ command at the Last Supper as he shared bread and wine with his followers. His words have resonated down the ages, ‘do this as often as you eat it, in remembrance of Read more