What the State Funeral Tells Us about Bands in Church

Brief reflections on the church and culture The other day, I was having a friendly disagreement online with another Christian, who was arguing that culture is essentially neutral, implying that the musical styles and genres used in Christian worship are interchangeable. The point being made was that it’s not necessary for Christian worship to be…

Losing the reason for the season

Christmas is prime time for Christian hand-wringing at the state of the world, more so it seems than Easter. It's at Christmas that we find ourselves lamenting most loudly, persistently and at length at just how far secularisation has advanced. Not a single Christian carol at Tescos, no manger scene at Debenhams, cards galore with…

The Lie

The lie is the death of man, his temporal and his eternal death. The lie kills nations. Through their lies, the most powerful empires of the world were laid waste. History knows of no more unsettling spectacle than the judgment which comes to pass when the men of an advanced culture have rejected the truth,…