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Tattoos: A Spiritual Taboo or a Matter of Conscience?
Paul Williamson24 Oct 2019As a teenager I was very keen to get a tattoo. Most of the older boys in my village had one or more, and I longed for the day that...
Rethinking Contentment
Chris Thomson03 Sep 2019Should Christians be content with their circumstances? Our first reaction might be “Of course!” After all, doesn’t Scripture command contentment? But what does that mean? Dictionaries typically define contentment as...
Praying with Peter the Barber
Mark Earngey09 Aug 2019‘So, a good and attentive barber keeps his thoughts, attention, and eyes on the razor and hair and does not forget how far he has gotten with his shaving or...
5 Benefits of Congregational Lament
Will Timmins01 Jun 2019“There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance” (Eccl 3:4). Fasting and mourning was characteristic of John the...
The art of noticing things
Andrew Shead01 May 2019One of history’s great eccentrics was the eighteenth-century poet Christopher Smart. While locked away by his embarrassed father-in-law for his habit of praying loudly in public places, Smart wrote a...
Stand up, and stand out, for God
Simon Gillham08 Feb 2019Introduction Glynn Harrison’s book A Better Story: God, sex and human flourishing is a great account and analysis of the social shifts in sexual ethics in Britain, which are mirrored...