Welcome to my website

I am a pastor and Christian educator.

In a nutshell, this is what I do…


Understand the Bible

My online ministry focussed on creating videos and songs to teach the Bible and the Christian faith.

The Bible Uncancelled

A short, weekday thought from the Bible published on video or podcast.


This Blog

I only write occasionally here now, as my attention is focussed on the two things I mention above. However, there is an archive of over 2,000 posts which I’ve made over the last 20+ years, these posts are all still accessible.

Latest Posts

  • Richard Dawkins on the ethics of Stuart Broad

    If you haven’t been following the Ashes over the past few days, you may not have heard about the mini furore created by Stuart Broad last week. Broad is a batsman for England who was caught out fairly and squarely, but refused to ‘walk’, leaving the decision down to the umpire. There has been a…

  • “Lexicon” by Max Barry

    As some of you may know, I’m a fan of the author Max Barry. The first book I read of his was “Company” (it’s his third book, so I was a bit out of sequence); then I read Syrup and Jennifer Government. More recently he wrote Machine Man – all are excellent books and I…

  • DJ Mix Archive

    Some of you may know, I used to (and still do) do a bit of DJing. I used to have a bunch of mixes uploaded when I had my own webspace, however since I switched to using WordPress hosted I’ve not had a central place to host them (I did try SoundCloud, but that has…

  • John 19: Jesus’ Trial and Crucifixion

    As alert readers will no doubt be aware, I have been studying John recently (you can read my previous blog posts on the subject here and here). I promised in my last post that I would blog about John 19, and I thought this would be as good a time as any – particularly while…

  • Quick Life Update

    It’s been a funny old month. Quick a lot seems to have gone on over the past month or so: Phil and I had our 20-week scan. My Mum died, and the funeral was last Friday. On top of all that, I’ve had a ridiculous amount of work to do college-wise. At the moment I’m…

  • Saul to Paul: A few thoughts on Acts 13

    One of the things which struck me about our New Testament course this year was the idea of narrative criticism, i.e. reading the text critically (analytically that is – not ‘critically’ in the popular sense) as narrative. I’d never really thought about the gospels in that way before, and it’s been colouring the way I see…

  • Mum [1945-2013] – A Tribute

    As some of you  may have seen on Twitter and Facebook, my Mum died yesterday. She lost her battle with lung cancer, which I’d written about previously. The picture on the left was taken at Christmas last year; it’s probably one of my favourite pictures of her. It’s amazing to think how much things changed…

  • Not dead!

    That’s right. Just wanted to post up to say, I’m not actually dead! I’m just working very hard. Things have been pretty mental at Oak Hill this last term. I’m working on a seminar for John 19 at the moment (well, not right at this moment, obviously. Not today, even. But you get what I mean.)…

  • A time of Expecting…

    After all the heavy stuff I’ve been talking about over the past few weeks and months, it gives me great pleasure to announce… we’re expecting a baby! 🙂 We had the 20-week scan today at the hospital. Everything was fine, the baby seemed to be doing well, the heart is beating fine, and it was…

  • The Raising of Lazarus

    As I mentioned in my post on the woman at the well, I’ve been doing a class on John’s Gospel the past couple of months. It’s probably been my favourite class of this year, which is no small feat! John is such a rich gospel, and it’s been a real privilege to spend some time…