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Hope in the midst of silence.
22/12/2025

Hope in the midst of silence.

Advent is a time for silence. Or, to put it a little better, Advent is a time for facing up to the silence of God. We don’t like to admit it. This is the time of year for declaring the Emmanuel—tha…

What does being eucharismatic mean or look like? A had a great conversation with the ever generous Jez Field to explore ...
18/12/2025

What does being eucharismatic mean or look like? A had a great conversation with the ever generous Jez Field to explore that.

I recently had the joy of having a chat with Jez Field of New Ground’s Life and Leadership podcast about all things ‘eucharismatic.’ You can, if you so desire, listen to it here b…

The O Antiphons teach us seven truths about Jesus we will know in full when he returns.
15/12/2025

The O Antiphons teach us seven truths about Jesus we will know in full when he returns.

In the western liturgical traditions, the last seven days of advent include singing these seven chants—they would be largely unknown to churches like mine whose hymnody owes more to Hillsong than a…

God stooped low in order to lift us up.
11/12/2025

God stooped low in order to lift us up.

Nietzsche attacked Christianity with all the strength his mind and powerful prose could summon up. His hatred for Christians was sourced in part because he considered the faith to be a religion for…

If we looked at our tables at Christmastime, would we see the Church?
08/12/2025

If we looked at our tables at Christmastime, would we see the Church?

This is a time full of feasting. Everywhere you go it seems you’re offered a plate of mince pies or piece of stollen, perhaps with a glass of mulled wine. You can’t escape it—biscuits and coffee at…

Advent is a month looking forward to the joy of Christmas. Advent is a month looking forward to judgement.Advent has two...
04/12/2025

Advent is a month looking forward to the joy of Christmas. Advent is a month looking forward to judgement.

Advent has two faces.

You’d be forgiven for thinking I was speaking of January, named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces to look forwards and backwards in the year. Rather, Advent—the first season of the Christ…

Advent can teach us to wait, and by waiting we can learn to long, and by longing we can encounter joy.
01/12/2025

Advent can teach us to wait, and by waiting we can learn to long, and by longing we can encounter joy.

This is the time of waiting. It doesn’t look like it if you look around you though. We must be one of the most impatient cultures yet to grace the face of the earth, which is why I’m convinced we n…

Advent is coming. How can we embrace the season?
28/11/2025

Advent is coming. How can we embrace the season?

Advent starts on Sunday, which will confuse some of you because you’re expecting it to start on Monday. Others of you will be appalled at the idea of ‘doing Christmas’ in November, even if it’s jus…

Wisdom is embodied, not something that exists in the realms of ideas.
24/11/2025

Wisdom is embodied, not something that exists in the realms of ideas.

This will initially seem like an odd claim to make, and a particularly odd claim to read on your phone, the most disembodying and dislocating device you own. Wisdom doesn’t feel embodied, wisdom is…

Churches can, accidently, infantilise people. We should attempt to treat people like adults.
20/11/2025

Churches can, accidently, infantilise people. We should attempt to treat people like adults.

I fear that, without really intending to, churches have a habit of infantilising people. We should treat people like adults. My new staff team tells me this is something I say a lot. In my experien…

What exactly is the so-called Quiet Revival? How should we think about it?
17/11/2025

What exactly is the so-called Quiet Revival? How should we think about it?

One thing is for certain: it’s neither quiet, nor a revival. The term is now everywhere in the Christian discourse, the UK Bible Society released a report from some research they’d conducted that c…

Writing the date should remind you that whatever you're writing it on is part of a grand story that finds its meaning in...
13/11/2025

Writing the date should remind you that whatever you're writing it on is part of a grand story that finds its meaning in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

We have to thank a man of the north east, the Venerable Bede, for the fact that we all call the year I’m writing this 2025. Bede didn’t invent AD as a counting system (that was Dionysius Exiguus in…

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