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Am I Beautiful?
I gave greater-than-normal consideration to what I wore yesterday. In the evening I was going to the launch of my friend Chine Mbubaegbu’s new book, and it was making me feel unusually conscious about...
View ArticleExercising faith?
Some people seem to treat exercise like a religion. They’re often more dedicated to it, enthusiastic about it and evangelistic about it and its benefits than those of us who go to church are about our...
View ArticleA Purposeful Life
I’m not in the business of selling flowers, I’m in the business of saving marriages. This line, according to a tweet I saw on Friday, was uttered by the florist at Liverpool Street Station. It reminded...
View ArticleFaith in action
Gillan Scott, on his blog God and Politics, has a guest post up today by Robin Peake, entitled ‘Why I’m setting up a Credit Union‘. I love the matter-of-fact way that he talks about it: Eight weeks ago...
View ArticleOur eyes were opened
You know those times when someone points something out in the Bible that is so clear you can’t believe you haven’t noticed it before, yet so deep and profound it seems almost as though there were some...
View ArticleFor a moment the darkness
Halloween is nearly upon us again. In the US, I have no doubt, the shops have been draped in black and orange decorations and festooned with fake cobwebs for weeks. They make a BIG deal of it over...
View ArticleWorshipping Disneyland
Some friends of mine recently spotted the following sign outside a local pub: Your body is not a temple. It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride! What a perfect summary of what our culture believes...
View ArticleAbove all
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying a new approach to my daily Bible reading. Those of you who follow me on Facebook or Instagram will have seen that every day I try to find one verse, phrase or...
View ArticleRebuilder of Ancient Walls
Outside St James’ Church, Piccadilly, stands (or stood, until 6th January) an 8m (26ft) concrete wall. It has displaced the bustling market which normally inhabits the square. It has obscured the view...
View ArticleThey think it’s all over…
“It is finished.” John 19:30 I wonder what the onlookers at the foot of the cross thought when they heard Jesus utter those words. His enemies must have gloated – it is finished, it’s over, we’ve...
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Review: Celebration of Discipline
I love books I have to read with a pencil in my hand. Well, that’s not 100% true: some books I have to read with a pencil in my hand because they are so poorly written or poorly edited that I have to...
View ArticleMaking it Count
I have recently started doing some work for Cinnamon Network, a collaboration of people passionate about helping local churches connect with replicable social action projects to serve the needy in...
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The Inside Out, Second Choice Life You Never Expected, And How To Deal With It
When life gives you lemons, so they say, you should make lemonade. But what about when life comes along and plants a whacking great lemon tree right in the middle of your neatly manicured world? What...
View ArticleI’ve cracked it! (Kind of)
If there were championships for mind-wandering, my brain would win gold every time. I remember one occasion when I was supposedly having my morning prayer time, but suddenly realised I was thinking,...
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When Strangers Become Friends
I first met Amy at the launch of my friend Chine Mbubaegbu’s book Am I Beautiful? “Hi,” I said, “I’m Jennie.” “Hi,” she answered, “I’m Amy Boucher Pye.” My brain started racing. Was I supposed to...
View ArticleAs we forgive those…?
This is a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago in response to a media story about a cinema chain refusing to run an advert showing different people praying the Lord’s prayer. The story itself was almost...
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Last Giveaway of the Year
One of my most popular blog posts this year was this one, about the little prayer diary I found unexpectedly helpful. It didn’t score as many hits as this post, or this, and gained no comments, unlike...
View Article“Famous person is human – Shock”
Last Monday the Daily Mail ran a ‘news’ story showing the Duchess of Cambridge looking weary as she did her Christmas shopping. This didn’t just make it into the Mail’s infamous online ‘Sidebar of...
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Review: Resurrection Year
“Books like this usually end with a miracle.” So said one of the potential publishers of Sheridan Voysey’s Resurrection Year. But not everybody’s story ends like that. Resurrection Year is the story of...
View ArticleThe scandal that rocked…nobody at all
It should have been a great scoop for The Telegraph. ‘Archbishop Illegitimate: Welby conceived in drunken romp shame’. Except it didn’t turn out like that. This weekend, following an investigation...
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