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I only write occasionally here now, as you will see. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, which are all still accessible.
Latest Posts
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Have we focussed too much on apologetics?
I see a lot of apologetics videos on YouTube, defending Christianity against progressive Christians or atheists etc. By focussing on this kind of content, I think we might be missing something important. I decided to try another video post because it seemed to work quite well last time. I’m beginning to find it more natural…
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Are men the problem?
I’ve been thinking a lot about our response to Sarah Everard. One thing which really worries me is the way it pits men and women against one another. For once, I’ve actually tried to do a vlog about this rather than a written post. Over the last few months I’ve begun to feel it’s easier…
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Me on Irreverend
After my last couple of articles about Experts (this one and this one), the good chaps over at the Irreverend Podcast invited me to chat with them. We had a really good discussion – it’s quite long (about 90 minutes), but I think we covered some really interesting ground. It was a helpful conversation for…
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Sacred DnB Podcast #15: “Lift Me Up”
I’ve decided to make my DJ / DnB Podcast an occasional podcast, rather than a regular monthly one. It’s just too much work to do it every week! I appreciate that the crossover of people who like DnB and the people who like the other stuff I do is probably quite small. But it’s too…
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On experts and being too optimistic
A few days ago, the Irreverend Podcast discussed my previous article about lockdown and the end of “experts”. I enjoyed the episode and I thought the discussion was helpful. It’s nice to find like-minded clergy who don’t buy into the typical Guardian worldview! Anyway, the conversation did provoke me to think about what I wrote…
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Will Lockdown be the end of “experts”?
A few years ago Michael Gove made his infamous statement: “people in this country have had enough of experts”. At the time I think I found it vaguely amusing – at the time, there were a lot of experts who had been weighing in about the EU. But over the last few months it’s come…
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Schaeffer on 2021
“How could a book written 50 years ago so accurately make sense of what’s happening today?” Those were my thoughts as I read Francis Schaeffer’s book The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century. I’ve mentioned Francis Schaeffer a few times lately – I’ve discovered his writings over the last couple of years, and…
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What Conservative Evangelicals get wrong about preaching
I have spent pretty much my entire life going to evangelical churches. These are churches where the sermon is often the ‘main event’ in a service. This was especially true in the church I attended before going to theological college. There, a very high value was placed on having “good” preaching – it was really…
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Reflections on passing 100,000: Grief and Anger
Recently the UK passed a pretty grim milestone: we went over 100,000 covid deaths. The UK has one of the worst death rates in the world – according to Worldometer, we are currently number five on the list (if you sort by deaths per million population). The two most common reactions I’ve seen have been…
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Sacred DnB Podcast #14: “We wanna be free”
I have uploaded a new episode of the Sacred DnB Podcast. This will probably not interest about 99% of you, but for the one or two it does… (I’m posting this here because the podcast website has lapsed; I can’t maintain another site at the moment!)