At the end of last week, President Trump welcomed President Putin to Alaska. This week Vladimir Zelensky heads to the White House joined by a number of European leaders to support him I’ve commented previously that Trump”s apparent willingness to carve up Ukraine, requiring mineral rights for the US whilst other territory is given up… Continue reading Putin’s victories
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Why I’ve challenged Birmingham Council’s Public Spaces Protection Order on noise
As explained in a post yesterday, Birmingham City Council had introduced a PSPO banning the use of musical instruments and amplification equipment at all times in certain parts of the city centre. I’ve written to the Council asking them to revoke and reconsider the order. I’ve also written to Christian Concern to review if there… Continue reading Why I’ve challenged Birmingham Council’s Public Spaces Protection Order on noise
Birmingham Council’s Public Space Protection Order – impact on street Evangelism
This week, a “Public Space Protection Order” came into force in Birmingham city centre. It is designed to restrict the activities of buskers and street preachers. The stated aim is to respond to noise nuisance caused by their activities and prohibits the use of musical instruments and amplification within the city centre. To This move… Continue reading Birmingham Council’s Public Space Protection Order – impact on street Evangelism
Two of the best things that your preaching should do
Let me share two stories from personal experience with you. In the first case, I was the preacher. Imagine the scene. I’ve completed my second year of theological training and my home church pastor has arranged for me to do a summer internship at a little village church (Halling Baptist) without a pastor at that… Continue reading Two of the best things that your preaching should do
The Federal Vision and paedobaptism
In the Joint Federal Vision Profession (2007), the signatories wrote: We affirm that God formally unites a person to Christ and to His covenant people through baptism into the triune Name, and that this baptism obligates such a one to lifelong covenant loyalty to the triune God, each baptized person repenting of his sins and trusting in Christ… Continue reading The Federal Vision and paedobaptism
Robert Jenrick, Krish Kandiah, Thought for the Day, Immigration and Xenophobia: Further Reflections
The other day I mentioned the Thought for the Day piece by Krish Kandiah that was pulled and then edited to exclude a reference to Xenophobia in criticism of remarks made by the shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick. To date, apart from my own piece, I’m only aware of an article on Facebook by John… Continue reading Robert Jenrick, Krish Kandiah, Thought for the Day, Immigration and Xenophobia: Further Reflections
Why am I so exercised over Federal Vision?
This is a question that a good friend recommended I addressed as part of my articles on the subject. Perhaps you’ve been thinking that very question. Why is Dave paying attention to this out of all the errors and issues that beset the church? Well, first of all, it’s worth noting that this isn’t the… Continue reading Why am I so exercised over Federal Vision?
Thought for the Day: Free Speech, Politicians and Xenophobia
Conservative/Reform politicians and the right wing media are in uproar. The BBC has engaged in a bit of censorship. They made a mistake, instead of putting up the usual liberal theologian for Thought for the Day and instead of that person testing listeners to a few harmless platitudes, they only went and got in an… Continue reading Thought for the Day: Free Speech, Politicians and Xenophobia
Pick and mix? Evangelicals and the new Archbishop of Wales
We are still waiting to find out who the new Archbishop of Canterbury will be. In the meantime, the Church of Wales has appointed Cherry Van as its new Archbishop. Van is in openly same sex relationship. She has talked about having to keep her sexuality and relationship secret when serving in the Church of… Continue reading Pick and mix? Evangelicals and the new Archbishop of Wales
What was going on at Oak Hill in the noughties?
In my introductory article about the Federal Vision controversy, I shared some autobiographical detail about my own introduction to the ideas and people. This related to my time at Oak Hill Theological College and was really primarily about setting the scene and showing how I became aware of the issue. However, I’ve been asked a… Continue reading What was going on at Oak Hill in the noughties?
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