The real first Christmas is not a fairytale or a myth, it is the remarkable launch of a rescue mission that changes human history. 

A practical case study of mobilisation in Taiwan.

Christians have been wrong on the environment, but they have also, at times, been right, acting justly and humanely—and with results that we still benefit from today.

“Goodbye Christopher Robin” tells of the unavoidable distance between parents and their children, and the nostalgia for a lost home.

The apartment he lives in is replete with Marian images. The rooms where he officially meets with people are furnished with portraits of Mary. His own daily clothes carry objects associated with Mary.

Every passage of the Bible is saying something about something in a unique way.

Breaking free from the lens of white culture in global mission.

Spend fifteen or twenty minutes chatting with the guy on the sound desk as you collect your microphone, and a handful of other people you can strike up a conversation with, and you tend to learn a lot about a church.

Let’s ask hard questions that demand more than just shallow answers. Only then can we really deal with and solve complicated social problems.

Embracing a theology of ‘unity in diversity’.

We have to go above and beyond a casual reading of Scripture in order to speak it out to others. 

It has been great to see how students in Europe have gained new confidence to proclaim the gospel publicly.

For Paul Schrader’s characters, salvation is often synonymous with self-redemption. Atonement for guilt is sought through violence, which, far from being divine, is profoundly human.

“My children want to play sports, but that means not being able to go to church on many Sundays”. What should we do?

Humility is not just something God prefers. Humility is not an arbitrary demand we can hope to bypass. Nor is humility a contrast to God’s supposed demand for the spotlight.

To be strong in one area of religiosity does not guarantee that a person will be strong in other areas. Inconsistency may be evident in any one of the parameters of being Christian.

Roughly 15% speak it daily as their first language of choice. Consequently, the most likely way any of these people will meet Jesus is going to be proactively and lovingly, in and through, the medium of the Welsh language.

If Roman Catholicism is Roman, it cannot be truly catholic.

As with any addiction, the brain always wants more, harder, more intense. Saying that one can actually change the likings of the enormous mass of consumers towards a kind of porn that is non-violent and non-sexist, is a lie.

In the battle of language, this diffuse form of populism is defining what is “progressive” and what is not, and thus imposing its ideas on society.

When we are expressing our dependence on and need of God, then it is our prayer that makes us most human!

How did this young boy growing up in Kalispell, Montana make such an impact on the world that celebrities like Bono sought out his friendship and counsel?

Populism presents itself as the real, orthodox incarnation of popular will but makes itself unaccountable.

With such division in our political leadership, is there any wonder that the tensions over Brexit remain so high?

We need to be discerning as to the aspects of our nation and culture that can be affirmed by us, and those that must be challenged in the light of the character of God.