Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Kate Tempest has a child-like girl-next-door innocence about her. Fresh-faced and youthful in a sleeveless print cotton top, dark blue jeans and white converse – how can she understand humankind’s inner world so intimately, and describe it with such simple…
I’ve lived in many places – thirteen different locations over nearly fifty years. Before now when I’ve thought about my past, I’ve always conceived of it in linear terms – as though it were a timeline posted on a wall. …
Elegy for the light spectrum Equality isn’t the main issue, at least for me. I’m not yearning this morning to be considered equal in status or law with my brother Christians, I’m not yearning for a place at the high…
So George Osborne proved me wrong: hallelujah! Truthful with the economics, and forecasting lean times beyond the end of this parliament. Although the news isn’t good, I feel strangely lightened by the freshness of his candour, and a sober prediction…
When I was teaching I was struck by a claim that schools are always teaching young people about the world the teachers inhabited, preparing them for a world that won’t exist when the young people enter it as adults. Unless…