Doctrine

As I write this, the world is shocked and grieving at the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. The loss of life is beyond devastating. But news stories about disasters in our world are far too common, aren’t they? And whenever we hear of them, they…

This year on my birthday I received one of those DNA test kits – and I was so excited, I couldn’t wait to do it. I’d been wanting to do one of these for ages. The instructions directed me to spit into a little test tube and mail it off to the lab. It felt…

What is your worst nightmare? We all have those trivial nightmares. Falling into an endless pit. Being encircled by sharks. Waking up with a nest of spiders on you (which happened to me for real at beach mission one year!). But if I were to ask you…

Living with chronic illness in light of the cross A theology of suffering An older Christian once told me, “if you live long enough, you will suffer”. Over the years, I have seen how true this statement is and for our young family, it has been around…

As we approach this Christmas season, with the backdrop of a pandemic that has ravaged many people and communities, we ought to stop and ponder afresh the glory of the incarnation. With people in churches, and those we meet who are caught up with…

Christians think differently about physical bodies to many other cultures and philosophies. We see this played out in Paul’s interaction at the Areopagus (Acts 17), as well as nowadays with our Hindu friends, for example. In many traditions…