Category: Opinion

Russia Today

Last night Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner (a Russian, private military organisation) announced that he had 25,000 combatants ready to march on Moscow. He claimed that this was not a coup but “a march for justice”, that his target was the heads of the Russian military. He denounced both strategy and tactics in terms… Continue reading Russia Today

Does God care particularly about special places?

The other day, I wrote about the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer. One of the things I picked up was that there were claims of a special experience of God’s presence at the site.  One of the questions that has come back in discussion is whether or not God does show concern for specific places… Continue reading Does God care particularly about special places?

We don’t need “the world’s largest Christian land mark” in Birmingham

“We’re one step closer to building the world’s largest Christian landmark”  reports Richard Gamble about the building of an “Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer”.  There’s a lot going on in the report in Premier Christianity from the association of a physical place with spiritual presence to odd hubris of declaring this an “eternal wall.” Then… Continue reading We don’t need “the world’s largest Christian land mark” in Birmingham

Dishonours List

Apparently Nadine Dorries jumped the gun. It has been rumoured for weeks that she was going to be among a number of MPS named as new life peers in Boris Johnson’s resignations’ honours list. This morning she resigned as an MP but it turns out her name wasn’t down on the list after all. The… Continue reading Dishonours List

What happened on Britain’s Got Talent?

Well, what was that then?  If you missed or avoided this year’s Britain’s Got Talent (and most years to be honest we do), then a quick recap is in order.  There was the usual mix of singing, dancing and magic acts in the final, though a surprising and disappointing absence of performing dogs.  However, the… Continue reading What happened on Britain’s Got Talent?

Being eulogised by Babylon

Last weekend, New York pastor and author, Timothy Keller, died.  Since then, many people have been paying their respects and expressing gratitude for Tim’s life.  This has included secular obituaries including In the New York Times.  However, as I indicated in my own reflections, there was a significant number of people who found controversy in… Continue reading Being eulogised by Babylon

Government, childcare, muddled values and faulty assumptions

The Government are concerned that shortages in the labour market risk harming economic growth. Of course, some might suggest that labour shortages have a bit of a relationship to recent changes to immigration policy post Brexit.[1] However, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt has come up with a different answer. As part of a… Continue reading Government, childcare, muddled values and faulty assumptions

What can we offer?

I’ve just been participating in a conversation about what churches pay, specifically what they are currently offering Youth Workers/Ministers.  The conversation was started by an observation that a lot of jobs are being advertised at around £23k.  Incidentally, a quick check on both the Evangelicals Now boards and Premier’s suggests that there are some churches… Continue reading What can we offer?

The Coronation, the Archbishop and the Holy Spirit

Did you watch the coronation of King Charles III yesterday? What did you make of it? Personally, I thought it was an impressive spectacle.  We do ceremony and pageantry well, here in the United Kingdom.  It was at times moving.  There were those little individual moments set against the pomp and circumstance, a son kissing… Continue reading The Coronation, the Archbishop and the Holy Spirit