Understand me: “If you tell me to sit up straight, now I have to use all of my brain to do just that.”

We the citizens have a responsibility, not just the politicians, for seeing justice done and advancing the good of our society.

The ending of Asterix books reminds us the Story par excellence, the Bible - banquets point to our yearning for a happy ending.

These words count for everyone.

Speaking the truth may be challenging, but building up takes it to a higher level again.

The Bible teaches that mission requires believers in Jesus Christ to be sent, not people baptized by the Church. This is a significantly different view than that of Pope Francis.

Seven Christian intellectuals ask the state to “respect, guarantee and protect freedom of thought”, and demand “the freedom for Cuban parents to choose their children education”.

If we look through the history of the church, we see time and time again that Christians have stood up in the public sphere as agents of change for the good of society. We need such people now.

You are so much more than you seem, you are so much more than what people see.

31 October, Reformation Day. Learn more about two of the most influential Reformers in 16th century Europe.

Small blessings are still blessings; if it’s good, then it comes from above (James 1:17).

Being healed physically or not is not promised; but what Jesus does is to bring healing to our souls, restoring us. calling us “daughter”, calling us “son”.

Many crime fictions happen in the past, as if by looking back, we find a way of diagnosing the traumas of the present.

Disability is neither due to a person’s sin nor the sin of their parents.

Concerns about the digital currency being used to facilitate money laundering, drug purchases and terrorist financing are high on the list.

The need for transformative pastoral training in the majority world.

How does the way that David welcomed Mephibosheth into his royal court challenge the way we welcome children and young people with additional needs into church? 

Let’s resist being caught up in polarising narratives and instead adopt the Samaritan strategy: see others through God’s eyes.

Perhaps we too easily skim over the more minor characters that fill the pages of our Bibles?

The peoples in the east have resisted militant atheism. We, the west, are under another form of atheism which is a sort of political agenda.

There is nothing wrong with generous hospitality but sometimes we can overdo it or be so focussed on everything being perfect that we forget the very reason we are doing it at all.

The three years since the vote to leave the EU have shown the heightened impact of speech on political culture and how that flows into society and community relations.

This popular culture icon is nowadays described to us as a sad and vulnerable figure, timid and unsure – a far cry from the frivolous, joyful and radiant star that she was for her contemporaries.

Standing on the shoulders of the apostolic catholicity recovered by the Reformation, this is a promising way to reclaim and to live out the catholicity of the Church in our broken world.

In a major speech in 2016, President Xi Jinping called for the ‘sinicization of religion’. For the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of religion, especially Christianity and Islam, represents an existential threat to its political health.