… After all, the date is meaningless for anyone outside the US. But … then I realised that as a buyer I actually rather enjoyed the offers and often ended up buying something cool on the day. So… I am getting over myself and doing a Black Friday offer of…

Or, how not to preach about it … — Joshua 7 Acts 5:1–11 I wouldn’t normally write on this topic or these texts (God’s apparent judgement on those who withhold or defraud), do read them before continuing. I also wouldn’t normally expect to hear a sermon on these texts, or not one defending a straight reading of them anyway…

Another Christian apologetic issue … — My Twitter exchange on this topic went like this: Me — Adam and Eve were only two of the billions of diverse people that God has created. If they were married then any two people coming together are married. God never seems to have a problem with polygamy in the…

The Sharpest Thorn in Britain’s Caribbean Colonies — A review of Pamela Gayle’s book There are around 400,000 Jamaicans living in the UK. Of course they have been treated poorly, Windrush is just one example. Needless to say, but I will say it anyway, we (those of us who were educated in the UK, whether English, Welsh, Jamaican…

A book by Clare Amos, published by Sacristy Press — First of all, thank you to Sacristy Press for sending me a review copy in response to my request on Twitter. …

‘Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.’ (Acts…

I don’t normally do this — engage with Muslim apologetics in a blog. This is what I usually write about How to Read the Quran — Medium. I have a problem with apologetics, usually of the Christian variety, it tries to do too much, often badly. Our bad habits seem…

19 October 2021 A time to recover For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time…

What’s normal after the pandemic? People talk about the ‘new normal’. You’re probably fed up with it already, I’ve added it to my list of cliches that I avoid as much as possible. It’s not as bad as the longed for ‘back to normal’ though. We have a terrible urge to look backwards rather than…