Singing what I can’t say

THE FIRST RECORD I ever owned of my own choosing (there was a previous Christmas gift of an Alvin and The Chipmunks novelty single) was “Ferry…

Notoriety and no-names

NEVER HAS THE definition of a celebrity as someone who is “famous for being famous” been truer than it is today. Even in the church we…

No time for debate

FOR ME, ONE of the most striking images from the racial unrest of the last 18 months came from my homeland—a picture of a British Black…

Getting unburied

THE GREAT GIFT of salvation means freedom from the consequences and power of sin—not only ours, but those acts committed against us. We don’t have to…

A sobering assessment

A VAST communication net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches. Granting all its huge public benefits, this limitless world forum is nevertheless a…

Experiencing God as Father

TRYING TO DESCRIBE the Trinity is something of a loser’s game. After all, how can you explain the inexplainable? How can you put into words something…

The impossible gap

FOR THOSE OCCASIONS when I’m tempted to start thinking that I am doing pretty well in the living-a-godly-life department, a couple of verses from the apostle…

Who, what, where, when, how and whine

ONE OF THE things that drew me to a career in journalism was its role in championing the underdog, the tilt toward “comforting the afflicted and…

Ring a bell?

MUCH OF THE time, I like to think of myself as an affable sort of chap, not likely to get too bent out of shape about…

The waiting father

COUNTLESS WORDS HAVE been written down through the ages to try to convey the heart of the gospel, but it has perhaps never been better captured…