I was at an event today, a conversation about ‘Living the story.  Telling the story.’  One of the people in the conversation asked, ‘Do people out there really want to hear the story of Jesus?  Do they want the message…

Just a brief post today:  how do you discern what the Holy Spirit is doing so you can join in? Here are three possible signs (not the only ones – you’ll have your own): Where have a number of different…

The concept of evangelism seems to flow from the anxiety of the institutional church to increase its numbers by infecting more people with faith.  I don’t mean to suggest that people who love and serve God through a recognised role…

If ‘isms’ are dangerous, verbs ending in ‘ise’ or ‘ize’ are ominous.  Where did all the ‘ise’ words come from?  There are hundreds of them:  patronise, cauterize, immunise, terrorise, categorise, idolise, immobilise, infantilise, evangelise…. Where the verb has a human…

It sounds as if it should be the first line of a nonsense poem: ‘The danger of isms and and zations and ises – all human deceptions in different disguises!’ My new role gives me responsibility for encouraging others to…