A review of Allan Chapple's book, 'Ministry under the Microscope' To understand Christian ministry, we should not begin with ourselves...

A review of Martin Davie's Living in Love and Faith: A Concise Introduction & Review The Living in Love and Faith project can feel at...

When we are about to embark on a significant journey, it helps not only to know where we are going, but also to have at least a general...

A review of Kirsten Birkett's, 'And The Light Shineth In Darkness: Faith, Reason and Knowledge in the Reformation.' The late Dr. R.C....

This is an excerpt of Allan Chapple's book 'True Devotion. In Search of Authentic Spirituality' p 34-35 How does a ‘spirituality of...

A little history of women’s ministry Leoba Leoba was born in Wessex in the early part of the 8th century. She was taught by an Abbess and...

This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations. In this edition: Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther: Restoring...

A review of Ben Sargent's book 'As it is Written: Interpreting the Bible with Boldness'. Ben Sargent’s book, As it is Written, manages to...

“I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God himself” [GF Handel, on composing Messiah.] On September 11th this year...

A review of Matthew Rowley's 'Toxic and Intoxicating: Puritan Theology and the Thirst for Power' Today there is a strong movement to...

Dual-screen ministry I recently found myself describing my ministry as a little like having two screens on one’s desk and needing to keep...

When I took a call from our brother, the Rev Rinzi Lama, Dean of the Anglican Church of Nepal, I was struck by his compassion for those...

In the last sixty years there have been two major developments in the church's understanding of its mission. Firstly, the extent of...

This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations. In this edition: People not Pronouns: Reflections on...

Part 2 So what are we training women for? That isn’t a rhetorical question. (Nor am I saying that training women is pointless! Don’t even...

Part 1 Let me be more specific (if equally provocative). My particular ‘we’ is, in this instance, those of us in conservative evangelical...

Reflections on Jonah. Here in Duffield, at the end of August, we had a children’s holiday club across both our churches, studying the...

Reflections on Luke 15 - part 2 As we continue these 'Parables of Lostness', we come to the the third movement which bring us at last to...

Reflections on Luke 15 - PART 1 How many of us are constantly losing or misplacing things? You never notice that something is not lost...

A review of 'Remember your Leaders' by Wallace Benn. Reading “Remember your Leaders” alongside Hebrews 13 is a very good way of spending...