Faith

Here you can find my thoughts on faith, the Bible and theology. My Christian faith is very important to me, and informs everything I do in one way or another. I believe that God is real and has revealed himself through Jesus Christ and in the pages of the Bible, and that the truth of these things is open to rational investigation – I’d invite you to read the Bible and to explore the evidence for yourself.

Dispatches: In God’s Name

As the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill went through Parliament, Channel 4 aired a documentary about “the rising influence of Christian fundamentalism in the UK”, which I watched with very mixed feelings. The documentary was very selective and frustratingly one-sided. It failed to properly define fundamentalism: the way it portrayed it seemed to be Young […]

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Easter thoughts…

On Sunday, you may have noticed I wished you a Happy Resurrection Day rather than a Happy Easter. It seems that I’m not the only one who prefers to refer to our saviour’s resurrection than a pagan fertility festival. I’d been planning to make exactly the same point as Ted Slater does in his blog […]

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I Spy Book of Christians: Evos and Emos

[Disclaimer for those who are hard of humour: This post is a ‘joke’, and as such may contain hyperbole, exaggeration, gross caricature and stereotyping, satire, irony, and downright inaccuracies. You have been warned.] Don’t know your Calvinists from your Catholics? Pull up a pew in our handy spotters guide to the various types of Christians […]

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Free online Biblical training

I just discovered a website that claims to “offer the finest in Christian evangelical teaching to the world, for free, forever”. It’s got four main categories by audience: non-Christians interested in finding out about the Christian faith, new Christians just starting in the faith, the “man in the pew” who wants to learn more, and […]

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Info-Techno Sabbath

There’s a good article on Boundless about “unplugging the God of Information Technology“. As someone who compulsively checks their email and Facebook throughout the day, Joe Carter’s observations on the all-pervading place we give technology in our lives struck home with me. Recently, God has really been hitting home to me the importance of rest. […]

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Death Be Not Proud (Remix)

I’ve just got back from Contagious, the Bible-centred youth conference. It was amazing, and I’ll write more about some of the talks and seminars and stuff soon. The theme was the Resurrection, and while there I wrote and performed a poem on that theme, “inspired by” John Donne’s sonnet Death Be Not Proud. Death Be […]

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Did God punish Jesus?

One last post on the PSA debate, since I promised I’d write this a while ago. As I discussed before, there’s a lot of controversy at the moment in Christian circles about Penal Substitutionary Atonement – essentially, the idea that Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins to bring us […]

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