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For thinking Christians

These short blogs by Chris reflect on topics such as the impacts of AI and technology, bizarre Bible passages, or current day politics, as well as big questions like faith deconstruction, suffering and other religions.

Do Christians Muslims and Jews worship the same God
5 min

Do Christians Muslims and Jews worship the same God?

Are Yahweh and Allah ultimately one and the same?

Weird stories in the Bible
4 min

Why are there weird stories in the Bible?

How to approach those bizarre Bible passages

Would you recognise Jesus
5 min

Would you recognise Jesus if you met him this week?

Most of us would not

facebook - its all about you
4 min

Facebook — its all about you

Should we the stop using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all the other ways that our behavior is tracked online?

5 things i wish i'd known when i became a christian
5 min

5 things I wish I’d known when I became a Christian

5 things I wish someone had sat down and explained to me

What would Jesus say to Donald trump
5 min

Look before you tweet! What would Jesus say to Donald Trump, Theresa May, Mark Zuckerberg … ?

What Jesus might say to some of the world’s most famous figures?

3 lessons to learn from event sin 2017 - 2
5 min

World disasters, the Reformation and grace — 3 lessons from 2017

World disasters, the Reformation and grace — what we learnt from 2017

Christian lessons from 2017
4 min

Sexual harassment, secularism and spirituality — 3 lessons from 2017

Secularism, spirituality, and sexual harassment — what we learnt from 2017

One Thing from christ
2 mins

What’s the one thing the Bible says is important?

The most important thing in the Bible?

Jeremy Corbyn - vision
5 min

Jeremy Corbyn’s ultimate guide to developing a church vision

He has vision – does your church have vision?

Spiritual but not religious
5 min

Would you baptise my dog please?”

How to approach people who are Spiritual But Not Religious

Sabbath - God's day off
4 min

What did God do on his day off?

The secret to enjoying a Sabbath rest

Resolving conflicts
4 min

Soft hearts and thick skins – resolving conflict

2 ideas for resolving conflict at home, at work, in church

secret Christianity
4 min

Tim Farron’s resignation – Christians are now the heretics

If you’re a Christian please keep your opinions to yourself

election 2017 - how would Jesus vote
3 min

Was Jesus political … how would he vote?

Election 2017 — the overriding issue for Christians