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What 1000 Foo Fighters’ fans can teach the church
In a field in Italy 1000 rockers struck a chord. A man had a vision, he wanted the Foo Fighters to come and play in his town. So he raised some money, appealed for fellow fans and got them together....
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Eliminating hurry – notes from the mountains
It’s a dreadful cliché. I found God on a mountain top. But to avoid the very worst of it, it wasn’t on the top that my epiphany came but about halfway up the side of my third Munro of the morning....
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What exactly is leadership?
A question that gets harder the more you think about it Sounds like a simple question: what is leadership? But it’s one of those things that the more you think about it the more complex it gets....
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The cost of show and tell blogging
Used under CC 2.0 Propinquity I’ve written before about my experience of blogging and my crazed, ill thought through, entry into a particular avenue of the internet. I started out writing about...
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The urgent necessity of failure
Used under CC 2.0 John Lui No one likes it, no one looks for it. But if you don’t fail, you don’t learn. Part of the problem is that we’re taught that success is what matters most, we applaud...
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Mulling over Mulberry and the power of adverts
This week the onslaught has begun. It started with the Christmas tree made of red cups in the centre of King’s Cross station. Then I saw Pret have a website counting down the hours until the launch...
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Anatomy of an outrage (or, a prayerful revolution)
The Church of England thought it would be good to record one of the ancient prayers of the Christian faith for a new generation to hear as a prequel to watching about a long time ago in a galaxy far,...
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Smaller world, bigger picture
This advent I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my phone. I abstained from browsing to those sites, I let tweetdeck go dormant. I took a break from social media. It wasn’t a complete abstinence, once...
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Back to blogging? Or maybe this blog’s last stand.
I stopped blogging by accident. In December 2015 I posted a reflection on my Advent away from social media. And that was the last time I posted. I had taken the month away from Facebook and twitter to...
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Welby and a lot of whataboutery
A shorter version of this post featured as the Evangelical Alliance’s Friday Night Theology post which is available here. The Archbishop of Canterbury knew what he was doing. Ahead of his speech to...
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