Revival will come but it won't look like stadiums full of people. For too long the stage & lights have manipulated us. It will feel small and viral. It will be friends around tables being honest, broken, offering each other fresh grace & then carrying that grace to the streets.

'The notion that the cure for the most disabling aspects of autism will never be found in a pill, but in supportive communities, is one that parents have been coming to on their own for generations' Steve Silberman

'A handsome court preacher, the cultured public's chosen one, steps forward in the magnificent castle church, faces a chosen group of distinguished and cultured people, and preaches movingly on the apostle's words: God chose the lowly and despised. And no one laughs.' Kierkegaard

I have reviewed Ian Geary's excellent book 'Faith, Politics & Belonging' for the Kenarchy journal: kenarchy.org/perfecting-lov…

The Leadbeater bill is on a knife-edge; but if it passes, you can expect in 10-15 years to hear its backers saying, “Of course, in retrospect…” and “Hindsight is 20/20” and “Had we known then what we know now…” Thread on what we know now, June 10 2025:

Today is a turning point for us as a society. The assisted suicide bill must be voted against. I urge all MPs to vote against it. 1/🧵 Leadbeater 'confident' assisted dying bill will pass bbc.com/news/articles/…

Carting off the disabled and vulnerable into death pods to save people who have spent their whole lives powerful and comfortable from being ‘embarrassed’ by pain relief reads like something from the darkest Swiftian satire but is in fact the reality of Britain in 2025.

Kierkegaard on the pagan foundations of yesterday's assisted suicide vote. Neutrality towards suicide stems from a refusal to acknowledge yourself existing before God & the utter contingency of your life, even before ethical consequences are considered.

I have an article on autism, parenthood & the kingdom of God in the latest edition of Plough Quarterly magazine. I hope it might be of encouragement to some. plough.com/en/topics/life…

The world has forgotten about Gaza. There are daily massacres. Horrific images. People burnt alive. What more needs to be said and done to stop this genocide? There is a God. One day the justice of heaven will prevail. Lord have mercy!

Abraham Nussbaum Dr. Devan Stahl Malcolm Guite What Families with Autistic Children Know by Sam Tomlin For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle. plough.com/en/topics/life…

For too many Pastors their emotional stability is married to the Church—when their church is growing, they feel successful, when their church is stagnet, they feel like a failure. We must find ourselves hidden in Christ, not on the roller coaster of our competency.

We used to highlight the Deir Yassin massacre which took place in the Nakba. Every day today in Gaza is another Deir Yassin, where hundreds are killed, even starved to death. The Palestinian Nakba is an ongoing event.

I'm not all that interested in future church trends or new growth techniques. For 2000 years, the most relevant church has always been the one gathering around a table, caring for the neighborhood, following the words and ways of Jesus.

— Dostoevsky, The Possessed

'Sorry Danny Kruger, a Christian nation is a bad idea' Some ramblings of mine on recent narratives about nationhood, the church & identity for Seen and Unseen seenandunseen.com/sorry-danny-kr…

Has football become boring? Some reflections of mine on John Terry, Gary Neville, Jacques Ellul and the relentless search for efficiency for Seen and Unseen: seenandunseen.com/fed-todays-foo…

'they tried to demonstrate the truth of Christianity with reasons or by advancing reasons in relation to Christianity. And these reasons fostered doubt and doubt became the stronger. The demonstration of Christianity really lies in imitation.' Kierkegaard

'The ordinary kind of Christianity is: a secularized life, avoiding major crimes more out of sagacity than for the sake of conscience, ingeniously seeking the pleasures of life - and then once in a while a so-called pious mood.' Kierkegaard

"Gary and those like him, through their anger, reveal a politics that has abandoned them, economics that offer no hope, and a culture that makes them strangers in their own country. " Dr John Clifton examines the drivers of discontent, how anger, left unheard, hardens into wrath,