As I survey the theological landscape during this time when Covid 19 is creating havoc, I see pastors and ordinary Christians struggling with this question: “Did God send Covid 19?”   Some thump […]

At the time of writing, the Covid 19 virus is wreaking its havoc medically, socially and economically around the world. Everyone now has to find an entirely new way of living as they […]

“Science is rational and Christianity is not”… such is the claim of many strident atheists.   Many go further and say Christianity is actively at war with science, suppressing its truth. In reality, this claim […]

With the Internet, there is no forgiveness.   Thanks to modern digital technology, your mistakes now last forever.   Any dumb thing you have displayed or said on the Internet can be brought up at any time […]

A dear friend (who would claim no conventional faith) recently challenged my assertion that no one can have any sense of meaning if we dispense with the notion of God.   She said that people do […]

I once lived just a few kilometres from a place of mass murder. At the time, my father was a chaplain to the NATO forces who were stationed at Hohne in north Germany.   I […]