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The UK church is having a difficult moment. It feels, if you’ll allow me to slip into a prophetic mode I don’t usually use in my writing, like everything is being shaken. Some of this is the aftermath of Covid. It was an apocalyptic moment for many. We have increasing numbers of churches who need… Continue reading Ex Opere Operato and the Abuse Crisis
I’ve argued before that British Christians don’t know their Bibles, and I’d like to push that thought a little further. I think there are a set of nested problems that inform and intensify each other, I’ll briefly touch on each in turn, mention what I understand some of the causes of this to be and… Continue reading We don’t know our Bibles
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
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