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Vulnerability hangover
You lay it all on the line, you write until you bleed. You throw every ounce of the aches of your heart onto the page. Long words do not impress. Vain self image does not fool anyone. Writing that...
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On the sixth day…
Today I’ve written, a post for the #God52 blog, which if you’re not already familiar with – and its eponymous weekly challenges – you should be. The challenge for this week was to spend an hour on your...
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Sexual advances and the advancement of power
The weekend papers were full of it. Nick Clegg came back early from his holiday to issue a statement. The next morning the top Catholic in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, brought forward his...
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Am I a feminist? Opening up a conversation
There’s been a lot written about feminism in the Christian world this week, and recently the Christian feminist network was launched. The question I’ve been turning over in my head is whether I am one....
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Will the Real Easter Egg please stand up?
Are Real Easter Eggs more problematic than they seem? Is it possible that something as wonderful tasting as chocolate could be linked to more sinister problems in the church? I suppose small children...
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A collective day of Eshet Chayil
Today is a day of collective Eshet Chayil. Today is International Women’s Day. And I wish it wasn’t. I wish it wasn’t necessary to take a day to celebrate women Maybe I take the typically chauvinistic...
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Writing and wronging: learning lessons as I go along
Recently I have rather gone off blogging. There’s a lot I could say, I’m fascinated by the current resurgent feminism that is highly active in many Christian circles. I want Christians to have a...
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The King Has Come | Palm Sunday
During Holy Week I’m reposting a series I ran last year which retells the Easter story, I’m not sure who is in charge these days. We have a Queen, we have a Prime Minister, a parliament, an...
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The People’s King | Monday
Part 2 of a series for Holy Week, if you’re just starting it might help to read yesterday’s post The crowds who watched Jesus enter Jerusalem were puzzled. He came on a donkey, he avoided the crowds....
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The Followers of the King | Tuesday
I’m reposting a series I wrote last year for Holy Week, I suggest you start with Sunday’s and Monday’s posts if you’re just joining. It had begun at a wedding, his mum of all people had let the cat out...
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The King Betrayed | Wednesday
Jerusalem was brewing with discontent, beneath the asymmetric dual rule of Rome and the chief priests revolutionary fever was beginning to ferment. So sticking with Jesus was risky business. Others had...
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The Servant King | Maundy Thursday
Things started to get pretty intense at this point Jesus is ducking and diving to keep out of the way of the authorities. He calls his disciples together for dinner the day before passover is to begin,...
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The King Denied and Convicted | Maundy Thursday
He cried. He prayed. He asked to be relieved from this most heinous of deaths. There in the Garden after praying to God, for his disciples and those who would follow in his wake, he prayed for himself....
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The Killing of a King | Good Friday
Most of them stayed away. It was just too dangerous to be seen with this crucified traitor. The women could stand there, they could fall to their knees. They could wail and they could weep: they were...
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The King has Gone | Easter Saturday
The women wept, the soldiers gambled, one prisoner mocked, the other pleaded. The centurion acknowledged that they’d killed the king. The next day was dark. Not the darkness that had come with Jesus’...
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Long Live The King | Easter Sunday
They have stolen the body. Someone has moved it, how dare they? Don’t they know who this is? Can’t they let us come to terms with our loss, with the fact that the one that we have has gone. The tears...
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Are benefits of benefit?
Is the future of the welfare state “poor, nasty, brutish and short”? To take Thomas Hobbes’ descriptor of humankind and apply it to the welfare state may seem unnecessarily apocalyptic, but it may also...
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No point having an easy life
In his discussion of Matthew 2.13-23 in ‘Matthew for Everyone’ Tom Wright says: The gospel of Jesus the Messiah was born, then, in a land and at a time of trouble, tension, violence and fear. Banish...
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The Daily Mail: What an insult to Christians
The Daily Mail splashed their front page this morning with “An Insult to Christians”. No, that’s not how I’m describing it, that is their actual headline. They might think it is a descriptor of the...
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A ragamuffin called home
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world...
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