A few weeks back a friend asked me how I chose topics for this blog. It was a really good question and I gave a really bland answer. I said I just write about whatever’s on my mind at the time and, sometimes, just what I’ve been following on YouTube! Nothing deeper or more structured Read more

C S Lewis, in his Argument from Desire, wrote: ‘If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.’ In other words, humanity’s innate longing for something more than the material world can offer is itself perhaps evidence Read more

There’s been quite a bit of angst on social media and in the mainstream press due to the graffiti-style artwork that Canterbury Cathedral is hosting at the moment. It’s called ‘Hear Us’ and, though it’s the wrong end of the country for me to visit, I’m quite taken with the idea of modern urban angst Read more

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