My Talks
gives you a selection of my public teaching -
Past Topics 8
The Temptations Of Power
- The moment Jesus chose not to become another Saddam Hussein.
- Oscar Wilde once said he could resist everything except temptation. As supreme master of the one line quip he put his finger on the frailty of human
Trial By Water
- How nice a Christian would you be if you hadn’t drunk water for a day?
- Why is the Middle East in such a mess? The world is full of explanations for the Arab
The Undiscovered Country
- If the Church just ridicules people for being superstitious it misses one of its most important points of contact with them – over their fear of the future. Succession planning is one of those phrases that entered the corporate lexicon
>Walking Under Ladders
- If the Church just ridicules people for being superstitious it misses one of its most important points of contact with them – over their fear of the future. One of the quirky paradoxes of a rationalistic world is the persistence of ......
The Logic Of Forgiveness
- God forgives us, so we should forgive others. Why do we make a hash of such a simple equation? If our lives were governed entirely by logic - like the Vulcan race supposedly is in Star Trek,
Tweenagers And Kidults
- Why children grow up quickly and their parents don’t want to grow up at all. The phenomenon of tweenagers, in other words, kids growing older younger, is hardly new, despite what the media claim. Children have always wanted to grow
State Of The Nation
- Christianity faces new challenges in the UK as its cosy relationship with the status quo begins to unravel. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ was recently described as:
Celebrity Culture
- Is it wrong to follow the lives of other people? The enduring power of celebrity culture is a mystery in a world where almost no-one admits to being taken in by it. It is hardly sophisticated to confess to celebrity worship and so most addicts get
Holocaust Memorial Day
- Genocide is almost unbearably hard to think about, but it gives us a reality check on the fatal weakness of human beings to manipulation by others: Holocaust Memorial Day landed on January 27 because this was the day in 1945
The Bicentenary
- Words to a church celebrating a big anniversary. Two hundred years. To give you a snapshot of what was happening in 1814, consider these facts: it was the year George Stephenson tested the first locomotive; Napoleon was exiled; the