In my last blog post I discussed the myth of the undeserving poor, referencing a number of articles which prove the tenacity of the UK...

I recently finished reading The Myth of the Undeserving Poor: a Christian response to poverty in Britain today by Martin Charlesworth and...

II recently picked up the Church of England’s (CofE) 1986 report on the welfare state, Not Just For the Poor. It’s only 138 pages, so it...

Recently I have started listening to the back catalogue of podcasts from the Messiah Matters (previously, I think, the Rob and Caleb...

One argument that I sometimes hear from those who are perhaps more right-wing politically, including Christians, is that our response to...

My heart would have been full this week if my body weren’t so weary. My heart would be full because the outpouring of community spirit...

I have been thinking recently about what Christian lending and borrowing would look like if we tried to incorporate Biblical principles,...

My church has an evening meeting on Sundays, either a bible study and discussion or a prayer session. Every Sunday evening it makes me...

We prayed today for the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the knee of a white police officer. We prayed for his family, for the...

This evening we had a Bible study on Ephesians 1:15-23 and the prayer it contains. Paul was writing to a church he had spent two years...

There is a major issue around where I live that the churches lack credibility in the community. This is a longstanding issue stemming...

Bible study: Luke 5:17-26 The story of the paralysed man is familiar to many Christians. Four men bring their paralysed friend to Jesus...

I am terribly afraid that what the coronavirus crisis is teaching us is that politics is the answer to people’s problems. That what we...

This is the second of two posts based on an article by the BBC entitled “The Disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible”. The gist of...

On Sunday 28th April 2019 the BBC published an article about ‘Disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible”. The gist of the article is...

A while ago I wrote about rest. I wasn’t sure how it could be fitted in with the necessarily busy lives that many, particularly those...

Recently I had a conversation with a church leader. We had a good conversation ranging over several topics, some at a bit of a tangent....

We might be responsible for getting ourselves into a mess, but does that make us ‘responsible’ for getting ourselves out of it? I use...

What does it mean for Jesus to give us rest? It is easy to spiritualise his words – that what he means is that we can carry on in our...

The sheep story continues… Note that the traveller represents the recession, the rich man is the wealthy of this country and the poor men...