Dear friends, I sigh as I once again realize Christmas has caught me by surprise as it always does. My family chide me for being an...

Sunday December 27th at 10am Browns Bay Presbyterian Church 45 Anzac Road Browns Bay Joining together with the churches on the Shore....

I apologise if several layers of thought coalesce into one stream here. It is the week when the electoral college of the United States...

On Sunday we acknowledge and celebrate the finale for children's ministry in our church for 2020. It's a bit different this year as the...

Twelve colourful stone foundations for the walls of the New Jerusalem —detail of painting by Joan C. Thomson Last week on Sunday we spent...

#1 - the first 23km Psalm 104:3 'you set the beams of your chambers on the waters, you make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the...

I was talking to a colleague about the prayer practice of Ignatian Contemplation, which engages the imagination by focusing on a gospel...

Jesus, in Luke 14, asked the gathered crowd; 'For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the...

I get discouraged with the tone of so many polarized debates online. Virtually every political, environmental, moral, religious,...

As a young man I learned a valuable lesson about which wagons to get on board. For the only time in my life I had gone lame with a really...

I found this gem of a book in a charity shop in Cambridge for a couple of bucks the other day; Evangelism for the Rest of Us: Sharing...

Today (Tuesday) I rang my Dad on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We'll be doing lunch on Thursday in Cambridge. I clearly remember his...

2020 seems to be the year we cancel events in a much more relaxed manner without the customary hand-wringing and false guilt of previous...

It troubled me to hear on the lunchtime radio news on Wednesday about the demise of free speech in India. India, a nation born of protest...

'The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them...

If we set aside any reference to Caribbean dance moves or Roman Catholic theology, the word Limbo has come to us from Middle English and...

'For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think...

These are interesting times in which to be both a father and a pastor. One is supposed to have firm opinions about stuff in both roles,...

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Speak, Lord, in stillness or storm, in circumstance or sign, in scripture or word, in conscience or...

Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf wrote this yesterday: We are drowning in fake news and often complain about it. But it’s ubiquitous...