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Ambition is the sort of thing Christians don’t like much. It seems to stem from too high a self-regard, the idea that perhaps you could change the world (or your world), or perhaps from selfishness. I want to argue that ambition can be a good thing, and even a Christian virtue. It is good to… Continue reading Holy Ambition
A couple of years back Onsi Kamel, in a much-read article, bemoaned the lack of a Protestant Intellectual ‘Ecosystem’ to rival the Catholic one. He pointed out some of the reasons for this, not least the strong populist streak in evangelical varieties of Protestantism, and some of the organisations that were striving to do their… Continue reading The Evangelical Intellectual Ecosystem
Behind my desk is a wall of words: 16 quotes or phrases that encourage me, each done in attractive typography. One of them is from N. D. Wilson, a writer whose wordsmithing I appreciate, even if I think we would think differently about very much where church and faith are concerned: heartbeats cannot be hoarded… Continue reading Lives are for living
Over the last few months I've been writing about some of the challenges facing the British church around issues of theological development. We lack a defined an coherent 'mind,' especially in the charismatic churches. I outlined our need for institutions, our challenges with reading the Bible, and how 'Doctors' will be a portion of the… Continue reading It’s Time to Build Counter-Institutions
As I write there’s just been a small Christian Twitter brouhaha (which places me temporally, not at all), over a new institution launched by The Gospel Coalition: The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. At the outset it’s worth saying that I was naturally warmly disposed towards the idea simply because more than one of the… Continue reading We Need Institutions
I was recently reading this fascinating article in Plough Magazine about intergenerational stewardship. I first heard about it while eating tapas with the editor, because apparently that’s my life now. Anyway, to the article: all well and good you might think, as long as you’re a German Prince with land that stretches back generations in… Continue reading Stewarding Stories
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