God-willing we'll be having Bible studies and talks from Mark's Gospel this year on our camp for 11-14 year olds ( Danehill 1 ). Her...

In church on Sunday we are encouraging people to sign the Westminster 2010 Declaration of Christian Conscience. You can find details and sig...

Today I'm running a session at the Sussex Coast Ministry Training Course for my little preaching group to tee up our term's work on ...

Some jottings towards a sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:12-26. Ecclesiastes 2 A Quest for Meaning: Living With Death (1) A search for s...

This might make an illustration for my sermon on Ecclesiastes 2 tomorrow where I'll talk about the difference death makes to life. Ther...

Mrs Lloyd tells me that there is a poster up in our local chemist that asks: "Which would you rather carry? A condom or a child?"....

While we were on holiday I enjoyed reading Peter Hitchens' The Rage Against God (Continuum, London / New York, 2010) - 168pp, which is ...

God-willing, I'm going to share some thoughts on preaching the Psalms with my little preaching group at The Sussex Coast Ministry Traini...

I've just finished reading Sam Allberry's book on the resurrection, Lifted! (IVP), which was out this January. I must say I've ...

In Lifted! (p114, emphasis added), Sam Allberry writes: It has always struck me as a lazy way to think. It implies a certain distance bein...

Jonathan Aitken commented that being some kind of half-Christian is about as good as being half-pregnant. When he was in prison he formed an...

Bishop Wallace commented that people often complain to him about the weather in a "can't you put in a good word with the Almighty...

Glen quoted this remarkable passage about Jesus from Lord Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor, last night in his superb talk on Jesus, th...

I'm reading and so far very much enjoying Sam Allbery's book on the significance of the resurrection, Lifted! experiencing the resur...

In Conversation with Fiona Castle , Rev'd John Cheeseman argued that it is the Lord Jesus Christ alone who can satisfy our deepest human...

God-willing I'll be speaking to our Mothers & Others group on Thurs 15th July and at our Listen & Lunch event on Thurs 22nd Ju...

Thanks to Rev'd Richard Perkins for mentioning that Philip Pullman, of His Dark Materials fame, has a new book due out in two days tim...

Roger Carswell suggested that we might think of the 3 crosses of Luke 23:39-43 alongside Romans 6:23: (1) The cross of rebellion - the unre...

I'm thinking I might tune in to Rev Prof Alistair McGrath's Radio 4 lent talk on the relationship between natural science, faith and...

I don't claim to know anything about economics, and some of this is stridently put, but here are some Oxford students (over on Facebook)...