In 1973, Paul McCartney & Wings released the album Band on the Run. One of the songs on this classic album is Let Me Roll It. Many people have interpreted this song as an olive branch offering to John Lennon after all the bitterness arising from his song, released in the aftermath of the breakup of the Beatles, How Do You ...

As one of my daily devotional habits, I am reading Matthew's gospel very slowly. Most days I only get through one or two verses, no more. My approach is to compare the text in a number of Bible versions, read what a collection of commentaries have to say about the verses in question and then make a few notes. I use Logos Bible software ...

This is a post I wrote back in 2013.

According to a 2013 report on the BBC's website, a study of families in the USA and in China suggests that most parents tell lies to their children in a bid to influence their children's behaviour for the better.

The study, published in the International Journal of Psychology, examined the use of ...

A Niggling Worry

I love baptismal services.

In my church tradition we practice believers' baptism by full immersion in water. And every time someone gets baptised, it is a red-letter occasion!

And so it should be. It means someone has died to self and risen to new life in Jesus. Another person has been transferred from the ...

Surely everyone who is at all interested in understanding the Bible better has already discovered the BibleProject?

Just in case there are still a few souls who haven't had this great pleasure, I thought I would post a short review.

The BibleProject first came to people's attention ...

I wasn't brought up in a liturgical church such as the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. Since becoming a Christian at the age of thirteen, I have only been involved in non-conformist churches, all of them Pentecostal in character, if not in name. So I was bemused (and to be honest, a little amused) by a report in the Dail ...