I recently sat with a friend in a wonderful tea house – you can find it on the Christian Economy App; and as we chewed the cud on many issues; accompanied by some fine Assam Tea and deliciously homemade cakes, he mentioned that his Church St Helen’s Bishop Gate was...
The Holy Spirit uses - the works of the Christian saint, to guide and build up the Church into the image of Christ. An instrument is a work: of art; effort, organisation, teaching written or spoken, book, that helps us to grow in our faith; think of the writing of C.S...
I have these last few weeks been thinking about the problems of the Islamic vision of heaven. How it reflects a man-centred vision in which it degrades man to sub-human acts such as bestiality, slavery, and subjects Muslim women to eternal open relationships; and...
How do we as Christians relate our own personal journey to holiness with the wider Church life. I attempt in this article to engage with these issues in some depth. I want to explore how the work of the Spirit becomes the holiness of the saints. Also how this life of...
I recently did an episode in my discipleship and apologetics class that I run every Monday; (you can sign on to it if you like via this very website); however, at the end of the class - though well received I felt I left too much out of what could have been said...
I was able to attend ARC again this year; the Alliance of Responsible Citizens; which is the brain child of the now ill, Jordan Peterson; who could do with your prayers from all accounts. This is now a gathering in its fourth year; and I have attended the last two....
This address was given in 2024 to the North Atlantic Polemics Conference and is published here to celebrate NAPC 2026, which is happening this week! GOD willing, I am going to talk about the Enlightenment as a defining dynamic of the Church’s relations and...
Recently, there has been a glut of outrage on X and other social media platforms about Muslims praying in the street, Trafalgar Square, the King not giving an easter message, and even a Christian buying churches to stop them from closing down; as well as the outrage...
I’ve set myself a difficult task, I feel, as I want to address several intertwined issues all at once. Firstly, I want to speak about a few church practices, mixed in with aspects of Volk Christianity, that is, corrupt understandings or practices of the faith, and...
In 2017, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York released a joint statement calling for Christians to repent of the deep division, mistrust, and violence of the Reformation, stating that, whilst blessings did come from the Reformation, repentance of its darker parts...
