Jonathan Pay - email marketing consultant
Does understanding how something works diminish its capacity to move us? Between medical scans, we prayed, and healing came. The sceptic in me knows about unconscious pattern recognition. The believer has felt something larger. Here’s what I’m learning: I don’t have to choose between faith and reason.
Eighteen years after writing about faith and maturity, I’ve learned that theology isn’t about certainty, it’s about kindness. From striving to rootedness, from fear to grace, this is what growing up in faith really looks like.
Charlie Kirk’s death has sparked calls for prayer and condemnation of violence. But rhetoric matters. Kirk built a career on dehumanisation dressed in Christian language, helping create the climate that consumed him. Christian nationalism isn’t Christianity. Christ’s Kingdom is built on love, dignity, and welcome — that’s worth building.
I’m reminded of Jesus’ call to kindness and inclusion – welcoming the least, embracing outsiders, and rejecting division. Be kind. Be inclusive.
Whether it’s a school hall, an Anglican church, or my living room, I’m reminded that the location is indifferent. What truly matters is the encounter with God. Church isn’t about the place; it’s about the moments that transform spaces into something sacred. It’s the event that changes everything.
It should not surprise us that a religion whose fundamental doctrine is the incarnation should take space seriously in its worship. Not only did Jesus Christ enter human time, but he also came to dwell among us, occupying a specific and definite place on earth in Judea. The New Testament is full of place names; […]
“Jesus. The first word of this book must be Jesus, because everything, reformission included, begins and ends with him.” Mark Driscoll, Radical Reformission An incredibly simple point made by Mark Driscoll in Radical Reformission. I know I for one am constantly guilty of placing other things in my life ahead of Jesus. But to his […]
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