Our New Year’s resolution – humility?

If 2020 has taught us anything, it is surely that things are not always as they seem. We are generally more fragile than we like to admit. And with a sudden realisation of fragility there often comes frustration, anger, a claustrophobic feeling…

How did we get here?

This Christmas, I’ve found myself in a hierarchical, litigious (and in an odd way), communally isolated Australia. How on earth did we get here? Western culture is built upon freedom and individuality. We value our own goals, our own expression,…

Power and pride

In recent years I have become downwardly mobile, that is to say I used to be able to do more than what I can do now. Two words: small children. I mean I used to be able to go to the shops and even to the bathroom whenever I felt like it. Now there are very…

Pastoral care for the sluggish

One of the saddest conversations I have ever had is with H. H was a skilled evangelist, a natural conversationalist, highly intelligent with infectious energy, and, most importantly, was on fire for the Lord Jesus. Yet in this conversation,…

When to take a stand

From time to time, faithful Christians have been called on to take a stand for the gospel.  In the 1st century it was over circumcision and Gentile inclusion in the church. In the 4th century it was over the nature of God and the divinity of…