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Leave them, take me

April 10, 2020, Published by

“Leave them, take me.” It’s become a standard scene in hostage films. A brave parent offers themselves in place of their kids, or a husband in place of their wife. They’ll willingly endure the pain of whatever comes next in order to save their family. I couldn’t help but think of this as I read the Easter story again this morning. I found myself left in awe at a few simple words, spoken in the Garden of Gethsemane; the whole message of Easter is wrapped up in them. Jesus had walked with his disciples to the garden. When his one time friend Judas arrives, with about...
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Christ revealed in the everyday

May 8, 2019, Published by

There’s a painting I visit, when I’m in London, that’s like an old friend; I’ll go and sit for a while and just enjoy its company. This past week I was visiting for a conference and feeling a bit — well, frankly, a bit however it is introverted-intuition types feel when we dwell on existential crises for too long. I left the venue, grabbed a hire bike, and rode across the city to the National. They’ve moved it recently, so I find myself wearing a new path through the carpets to a smaller room where it sits with a large...
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An Alternate Rich List

May 14, 2018, Published by

Ed Sheeran. He’s got a bit of cash, apparently, though not as much as Paul McCartney who has a whole lot more. I know this because yesterday was the publication of the Sunday Times’ Rich List, an annual list of the richest people in the UK. Growing up I just accepted the rationale of this — of course a nationally respected newspaper publishes a list celebrating how much money rich people have — yet now I can’t help but question why this is accepted. Why would this list exist if not for the underlying assumption, ingrained in our society, that...
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Resurrection

May 16, 2017, Published by

The thinkers and philosophers who gathered to grill the apostle Paul on his beliefs atop the Areopagus had heard many things in their time. Athens had always been a centre of knowledge and education; it was the city that had produced Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates and it carried the intellectual stature to match that tradition. The men Paul spoke with probably thought they had heard every idea under the sun. According to Luke, the historian who travelled with and wrote about Paul, they did little else with their time but talk about and listen to ideas. A revolutionary claim There was something...
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A Handful of Kings

August 1, 2016, Published by

Everything points to Jesus. It’s one of the first rules of biblical studies, everything points to Jesus. When you’re knee deep in the history of the kings of Israel and Judah, however, that can be harder to see than at other times. It can seem like an endless roll call of ne’er-do-wells with only the occasional bright light. A long list of men—with names that seem at times confusingly similar, and mainly begin with the letter J—who all too often ‘did what was evil in the sight of the Lord’. I believe, however, that the histories recorded in the bible speak not...
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