One of the consequences of my thinking over and over something, which also includes discussing it out loud, is that it can appear to be just a lot of talking and not a lot of doing. I am very grateful to the Leadership Team for creating such an open ended
Continue readingDid you know that at times I can speak quite quickly? I know it may have escaped your attention but there are times when I can gabble quite a bit and people then say ‘Pardon? Can you say that again please?’ If you are sitting comfortably, let me tell you
Continue readingI’ve chosen two books to think about this week (‘Where is God in a Coronavirus world’ by John C. Lennox and ‘God and the Pandemic’ by Tom Wright’)not only because they are both short, which they are, but because they both try to help us think better about who we
Continue readingWalter Brueggemann is an Old Testament writer and theologian whose heart and soul is energised by the testimony given within the Old Testament about the God of Israel. In this book Brueggemann writes on one text alone (Ex 20:17) and he surveys its impact upon the whole of Scripture. Brueggemann’s
Continue readingHave you ever read the ‘Communist Manifesto’ By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels? You should, just for the sheer pleasure of reading it. It is short, fast paced, passionate and utterly committed to the possibility of a brave new world. This is what ‘Liquid Church’ by Pete Ward is like
Continue reading‘Under the Unpredictable Plant’ is an exuberant 197 page book written with passion and intensity by a Pastor for Pastors. Before I first read this book I wanted nothing to do with what I thought was such a dated and out of touch title. Instead, I wanted something vibrant and
Continue readingNT Wright’s ‘The Resurrection of the Son of God’ has been the thickest, the heaviest and the most provocative book I’ve read since lockdown started. It is a 738 page joyous exploration of the staggering, earth shattering and life changing truth that Jesus has been raised from the dead and
Continue readingThe first hour of every day I spend at church is spent doing two things – one is praying (or gawping out of my window!!) and the other is reading. I do this day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year out and this has not changed
Continue readingI have never taken dance lessons which I nimbly demonstrate by my obvious lack of style; but I do practice dance steps. I don’t practice ‘old man dancing’ as that seems, sadly, to come quite naturally but at barn dances where I can ‘strip the willow’ or ‘do-se-do’ like the
Continue readingWho are you looking out of your window with? This last, and maybe the most wonderful step in this dance, is that when we look out of our window we do so knowing we are never alone. When we look out of our window we are never alone, because we
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