Is there such a thing as a righteous rich person, and conversely an unrighteous poor? Is it that all poor people should be treated as...

I hate charity. Not when I’m giving: when I’m giving, I love charity. It makes me feel better about myself, because I have done something...

A few weeks ago I came across these tweets by Sophie Killingley, @PrettySophieK, 9th Feb 2024: 1) The Evangelical urge to view everything...

I have had reason recently to reflect on my own assertiveness and how this fits with Jesus’ injunctions to turn the other cheek, go a...

Evangelicals and Social Action: from John Wesley to John Stott Ian Shaw (2021) Inter-Varsity Press Ian Shaw starts his book with a...

God and Government Edited by Nick Spencer and Jonathan Chaplin Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury Published by London:...

I have often wondered about the passage in Acts where the apostles appoint seven leaders to specifically oversee the distribution of food...

One of the things that I have been thinking about a bit over the last few years is the balance between individualism and collectivism in...

I was recently recommended Mez McConnell’s latest book, The Least, The Last and The Lost (I think that’s the right order!). Church Action...

“There is no presumption in Scripture that if a person is poor it was because of injustice Now, we do see in Scripture, especially in the...

Last time I posted the first blog of my response to Greg Koukl’s conversation with Dr Sean McDowell about the mission of Jesus. I queried...

This morning I started listening to Dr Sean McDowell with Greg Koukl about ‘what was the mission of Jesus?’, based on Koukl’s 2021 book,...

We think that we have an emotion, and our body then responds with the appropriate physiological response. One of my psychology lecturers...

Yesterday I came across this tweet from Heather Renee Morgan, @H_R_Morgan: “"Stand if you are able" isn't the inclusive statement people...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relevance of our ‘attitudes’ to things in Christianity. It’s fairly common, at least in my...

My church currently runs weekly evening sessions where we get to discuss or hear about slightly ‘wider’ issues or perhaps one might say...

I was interested today in the contrast between the sermon preached at my church today and that preached two weeks ago. Today, the speaker...

I love gardening. I love sitting on the ground in the sun removing weeds, dead-heading flowers or re-training a clematis. I love pruning...

This morning I started reading the book Neither Poverty Nor Riches by the American Craig L Blomberg. I can’t tell you how refreshing I...

This is the third of three blog posts triggered by the book, The Myth of Undeserving Poor, which I recently finished reading. If you read...