Postcards from Palookaville

As a brief follow-up to yesterday's post on boring preachers, I have been asked whether or not I think 'boring' is too subjective a category to be useful and certainly to use as a basis for firing someone. I disagree with those who think the category too much a matter of personal taste to be useful...

As a brief follow-up to yesterday's post on boring preachers, I have been asked whether or not I think 'boring' is too subjective a category to be useful and certainly to use as a basis for firing someone. I disagree with those who think the category too much a matter of personal taste to be useful...

Preaching on 1 Timothy 1:16-17 on Sunday, I was struck by a number of things. First, doctrine and worship go together. Doctrine may often seem a dry word but in fact it is simply the description of who God is and how he has acted. As Paul reflects in 1 Tim. 1 upon how God has dealt with him, his...

Preaching on 1 Timothy 1:16-17 on Sunday, I was struck by a number of things. First, doctrine and worship go together. Doctrine may often seem a dry word but in fact it is simply the description of who God is and how he has acted. As Paul reflects in 1 Tim. 1 upon how God has dealt with him, his...

While browsing a bookshop in Geneva recently, I came across a book with a fascinating title by a man call Klaas Hendrikse, Believing in a God who does not exist: the manifesto of an atheist pastor. It does not appear to be available in English but is available via Amazon here . Well, the Rev...

While browsing a bookshop in Geneva recently, I came across a book with a fascinating title by a man call Klaas Hendrikse, Believing in a God who does not exist: the manifesto of an atheist pastor. It does not appear to be available in English but is available via Amazon here . Well, the Rev...

There is a very helpful and moving article in Christianity Today on the impact on children of a parental pornography habit. You can find it here .

There is a very helpful and moving article in Christianity Today on the impact on children of a parental pornography habit. You can find it here .

If a man doesn't hesitate to use his parents' sex lives to get a cheap laugh and sell a few books, one should not be surprised if he sees yesterday's events in Norway as a great opportunity for puffing his own prophetic insights, trying to flog a few more copies of his own recent book and...

If a man doesn't hesitate to use his parents' sex lives to get a cheap laugh and sell a few books, one should not be surprised if he sees yesterday's events in Norway as a great opportunity for puffing his own prophetic insights, trying to flog a few more copies of his own recent book and...