The Christmas Season invites us to consider our place in society, reflecting the fact that God takes his place among us, in the form of that most helpless of human beings: a small defenceless baby. What might he be trying to tell us?
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How on earth did we lose our absolute terror of a nuclear holocaust?
The conflict in Israel and Gaza seems to be polarised with everyone calling for the annihilation of those on the opposing side. How has this happened?
Who needs ‘The Devil’ when there’s such evil in our world?
Almost every day now, I find myself reading about something that fills me with horror of what’s become of our world. In fact, on some days, it almost feels like an assault on me individually. It’s almost as if someone is watching me and saying: ‘Let’s throw this horror at him; he’s bound to react to that one!’
The world has not just rejected Christian values; astonishingly, it’s adopted the precise opposite
Into the space that used to be filled by Christian values, has come a whole new set of ‘woke religious’ values that don’t just reject Christianity, but attempt to indoctrinate us into almost the precise opposite.
God’s humble little dwelling: A theological reflection on ‘The Shepherds’ Church’, St Andrew’s Didling, West Sussex
For me, the most moving visits that I’ve ever made to church buildings have been to the humble places; to the buildings that look and feel as though they’ve grown up out of the ground, rather than been planted on it. These buildings speak of God; they are in the words of Jacob in Genesis: ‘the gateway to heaven.’ One such is St Andrew’s, Didling in West Sussex.
The look that speaks of heaven – a meditation for Easter Day
If we wish to be Christians, we must be prepared for an emotional roller-coaster at Easter!
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