The privilege of prayer for the president
It is good to remember that when Paul speaks about interceding for kings and those in positions of authority he was himself soon to be martyred.
The Great War’s damage to the English soul and church
The English church is still wrestling with the consequences of a terrible demographic, psychic, spiritual, cultural, and philosophical catastrophe.
An earthly and a heavenly citizen
Far be it from us “to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to us, and us to the world” (Gal. 6:14).
An evangelical in a strange country: the Episcopal Church
Mine would have been a thoroughly secular life, if it had been left to the anemic liberal Anglicanism of the parish church in my hometown, or the chapel of my English boarding school.
Preaching and imagination
Few preachers manage a zinger every week, but too many seem content with mediocrity.
Am I ready to die?
The diagnosis came like a bolt from the blue. As a priest, I have regularly been near death and dying, but I found myself unprepared for the inevitable in my case.
Life’s unexpected turning point
Richard Kew: "Two weeks ago I did not know that I had heart disease."
Coincidences: God’s anonymous way?
Faith involves long periods of trudging forward, punctuated by coincidences and the unexpected — and these sometimes build upon one another.