musings on leadership in ministry
American History X is one of the most powerful films I’ve ever seen. It tells the story of a young man sucked into a neo-nazi group and his agonising journey of discovery through prison and beyond. Amazon said: Perhaps the highest compliment you can pay to Edward Norton is that his Oscar-nominated performance in American History Read More …
The question is Jesus’. He asks it to Peter but I wonder if we, the church, were to ask the same question of our communities what kind of answer we might get? I noticed on Question Time on BBC the other night someone referred to Britain as a ‘Christian country’ before launching into a tirade about Read More …
‘Evangelical’ is a word that seems to make people either quake or rejoice because it is a word that seems to have become interchangeable with ‘conservative’, particularly in theological circles. I don’t get that. Evangelical simply means telling someone about something else, particularly if the thing being told about is life-changing. So why the association Read More …
Mental Health – the last great taboo? Over the past couple of nights I have watched two amazing explorations of mental illness, Stephen Fry’s ‘The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ and the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’. Both were fascinating! Stephen Fry suffers from bi-polar disorder or manic depression as it is otherwise known as. Read More …
