Exiled Preacher

We're off to the Algarve tomorrow. Like the PM we're flying by EasyJet, but probably unlike him it's hand luggage only for...

The unexpected sometimes happens. Who would have thought that Andy Murray would finally win Wimbledon, the first British male to do s...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West ,   by Tom Holland, Abacus, 2005, 418pp.  And for my next trick I ...

  There have always been cynics who habitually try and see the worst in other people. They are quick to pour scorn on new ideas and fres...

I may have mentioned before that I'm a school governor . And what does every governing body need? A blog , obviously. 

Had a lovely time this afternoon, speaking to a Primary School class on the differences between  Baptists and the Church of England. I ...

For some years my big reading project has been Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics . I'm now on Volume Four, which is the bigges...