Is it time to stop buying books from Amazon?
Did you know that over 50% of books in the UK are sold through Amazon? This share jumps up to 70-80% for books bought online. Meanwhile, independent Christian bookshops are falling by the way-side, and now Amazon are making moves to cancel and censor Christian writers.
Generational divides in the church
Have old and young ever been so divided? In the last fifty years we’ve seen seismic political, social, economic and technological gaps emerge between generations, the like of which has probably never been known in human history. These generational divides affect the church too. Local churches suffer when young and old don’t mix.
Critical Theory and the Reformation
Today’s Reformation Day, so we thought we’d do something a bit different. We’re going on an exploration of sorts, looking at this great historical event to see what it can teach us about how we should approach one of the philosophies that most shapes our lives today. Critical Theory The Dutch theologian Hermann Bavinck once […]
On the death of the Queen
I write with the shock of the news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II still fresh in my mind and heart. She was 96 years old, of course. But, like most of the people of this country, she was the only monarch I’d ever known, so much so that she seemed immutable, […]
Let’s talk honestly about pornography
Pornography has been with us a very long time. Since people first started scrawling pictures on cave walls, there have been words and images designed to offer an easy physical climax. Now the internet age has made the most explicit content available at the merest click of a button or swipe of a finger. However, […]
Making sense of the war in Ukraine
Words can’t do justice to the horrors of the war in Ukraine. Seeing the carnage and devastation play out in real-time on the news and on social media can’t fail to cause even the stiffest upper lip to quiver. We can’t avoid it, we don’t really want to… Large-scale war on the European continent in […]
What is wrong with celebrity Christianity?
The Israelites were fed up. They wanted a king to lead them and fight their battles. They were bored of living in a theocracy. They wanted a celebrity leader to look up to, a body to see and idolise. They wanted to be like the other nations. The tragic reality was they were bored of […]
Assisted suicide, anti-vaxxers, environmental protests, fuel and energy crises
In the news this week: Assisted suicide, Covid-19, anti-vaxxers, environmental extremists, climate change, fuel and energy crises. We can be forgiven for sometimes feeling that the world is going to pot… but what do all the above have in common? Our God is (capital S) Sovereign over all of them. Tune in to our latest podcast to hear some […]
What about Roman Catholicism?
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest religious denomination in the world with an estimated 1.3 billion followers—more than the number of Protestants (estimated at 800 million to 1 billion). Roman Catholicism has an immense amount of influence and power across the world. The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the one true Church inaugurated by […]