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Organ Pipes Project
St Peter’s organ was installed by Bryceson Bros in 1884 as a way of enlarging the earlier 1850’s Bates & Son instrument. It is highly regarded by those in the…
Read MoreWhy the Bishops are wrong
This is the text of a sermon preached in 2019. The views of (at least) some members of the House of Bishops appear to have changed since then. But…
Read MoreWhere Luther went wrong
At three inches high, a mini Martin Luther, complete with plastic quill, gown and tiny bible, has become Playmobil’s most popular figure ever. The first production run of 34,000…
Read MoreWhy believe? Books for the Clapham omnibus
Every now and then, I’m asked if I can recommend a good book that answers the basic question: why be a Christian today? Inevitably, it depends who’s asking. We…
Read MoreDoing nothing for Lent
A few years ago, I came across a little book with the fantastic title Do Nothing to Change Your Life.* Finally, I thought. Someone who speaks my language. We…
Read MoreEggs, ethics and economics
Easter Sunday, and it’s a beautiful morning with a full church. The resurrection is celebrated, and we spill outside for the important business of the day: the Easter Egg…
Read MoreManchester *
* May 2017, following a terrorist attack in Manchester which killed 22 and injured over 1000 When I was 18, I left Scotland and headed south to…
Read MoreWhy Tim Farron is wrong on gay relationships
When asked by Channel 4 News whether he thought gay sex was sinful, Tim Farron, an Evangelical Christian and leader of the Liberal Democrats, equivocated. ‘We are all sinners’…
Read MoreHard times
He was a single man in late middle age. Let’s call him George. An occasional worshipper at church, I’d arranged to visit him at home, in his bedsit above…
Read MoreThe banality of evil
When Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was abducted from Argentina by the Israelis and brought to Jerusalem, the philosopher Hannah Arendt was commissioned by The New Yorker to cover…
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