Author: faithrootsdw

What abortion is really about

Imagine if you heard that we were close to eliminating the following conditions: autism, asthma, MS, COVID-19, sight impairment, cystic-fibrosis.  Initially you might think that sounded positive. That is until you saw how it was being achieved. The Daily Telegraph this week has an article talking about the elimination of Downs-Syndrome within a generation. How… Continue reading What abortion is really about

Should care home workers lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated?

Today’s headlines included reports that Sajid Javid has told care workers that if they won’t be vaccinated, they should move on and get another job.  Next week we’ll be running a little series of articles concerning vaccine hesitancy including a guest post from Ash Cunningham who has a different perspective to mine.  Ash picks up… Continue reading Should care home workers lose their jobs if they are not vaccinated?

Greenhouse mentoring scheme – Passion for Evangelism

Here’s a guest post from Nay Dawson of IFES and PFE. This week I’ve been encouraging us to re-double our efforts to offer training for Gospel ministry outside of traditional seminary education. Here’s one such opportunity We’re excited to launch The Greenhouse project. A short term training opportunity for women, with a focus on creating… Continue reading Greenhouse mentoring scheme – Passion for Evangelism

Is the label “conservative-evangelical” a stumbling block?

Evangelical Times have published this article by Mike Judge explaining why he’s no longer using the term “conservative evangelical.” There were a couple of things that I found interesting in the article, not least that he is himself drawing the boundaries for who belongs to the tribe quite tightly. Mike identifies himself as Reformed in… Continue reading Is the label “conservative-evangelical” a stumbling block?

COVID-19 anxiety and church life

When I put together my initial advice on church risk management as we came out of lockdown, I advised that we needed to divide the risks into those driven by objective measures – how likely is our church to become the cause of a COVID-19 outbreak leading to hospitalisations – and subjective measures, how do… Continue reading COVID-19 anxiety and church life

When was the last time you heard a pastor tell their testimony?

This was one  of the questions I asked in my survey about what pastors talk about.  Here are the results. Now it could be that people have heard a pastor’s testimony, maybe not from the pulpit but for whatever reason its not registered. Yet that itself is a sign of salience. It matters that congregations… Continue reading When was the last time you heard a pastor tell their testimony?

How Theological College helped prepare me for Gospel ministry

Originally posted on Faithroots:
I’m republishing some articles I wrote a little while back about training for urban ministry. I want to share a few thoughts here about the positives of formal theological education and why I recommend it.[1]? There’s a temptation to see training as primarily academic and therefore irrelevant to the day to…

When did you last hear a pastor addressing abortion?

I’m planning over the next week or so to look at how we as churches address some of the ethical and pastoral issues that matter to people in our congregations. Last week, I ran a twitter poll asking my followers about when they’d last heard a pastor talk about particular issues. The first issue was… Continue reading When did you last hear a pastor addressing abortion?