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  • With Such A One Do Not Even Eat: Considering the application of 1 Corinthians 5:11 image

    With Such A One Do Not Even Eat: Considering the...

    It was the Beatles who sang, Love, Love Love. The angels sing, Holy, Holy, Holy.

    I can’t claim the credit for that bon mot, but it neatly sums up an issue with which...
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    Some Thoughts on the Election

    For those of us in the UK, it is two weeks today until we go to the polls in our General Election. I can feel your excitement.
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    How to Vote?

    A request came into @thinktheology for us to give some advice as to how Christians should vote in the forthcoming UK General Election. It’s likely we will have some... Read more
  • The Transgender Agenda image

    The Transgender Agenda

    Having secured the right for homosexuals to ‘marry’ in an increasing number of jurisdictions, the next great societal-moral shift is going to be the normalisation of... Read more
  • Twenty-One Years of Grace image

    Twenty-One Years of Grace

    Today is my 21st wedding anniversary. Twenty-one years ago, on a typically English April day in which we seemed to experience all four seasons at once (including snow... Read more
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    The Price of Shame

    After posting about shame the other day a couple of people drew my attention to a recent TED talk delivered by Monica Lewinsky (yes, that Monica Lewinsky) on the price... Read more
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    The Power of Shame

    A couple of years ago Justine Sacco tweeted an ill advised joke to her 170 followers as she was about to board a plane to Cape Town: ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t... Read more
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    What I Do With The “I”

    Last week I published the results of the “i-Poll”. The question I had asked was, who do you think Paul is talking about in the “I” of Romans 7?

    The results came...
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    Baseless Boasting

    Boastfulness is part of human life. Actually, it is probably part of all sentient life: just ask a chicken where she stands in the pecking order. Read more
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    The i-Poll

    Last week I asked who people thought the 'I' of Romans 7 refers to. Read more