CONFESSION: I PROCLAIM A DIFFERENT JESUS!   There has been a lot of talking about missional church folk presenting a different Jesus. Well I want to make a confession, as someone deeply committed to the missional church movement I do indeed present...

RENEWAL MOVEMENTS AND REACTIONARY MOVEMENTS   I am working my way through a well written and thought provoking book at the moment called MISSION SHAPED QUESTIONS edited by Steven Croft. It’s a collection of essays which are looking at critical...

<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "One Stroke Script LET"; color: red;">MISSIONAL: What’s in a Word?   Ann and I laughed a bit when we lived in the States at words which it seemed to us our American friends had made up, like...

SUSAN BOYLE ECCLESIOLOGY   Every time I head along the M8 motorway I see more TV crews heading for the small village of Blackburn which is about 5 miles from me here in Edinburgh. Blackburn has become an unlikely focus of attention for the...

AM I PREPARED TO BE DISTURBED?   Almost every evening a ritual plays out in our house. After we have had our evening meal and washed up we generally head for the living room with a cup of coffee to relax. As soon as Ann sits down Roxy, our dog,...