I’m agreeing with the National Secular Society on this one!

Having just a few hours previously posted Has William Tyndale had the recognition he deserves?, I am indebted to colleague David Gilchrist for his link to a Guardian report entitled… Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove’s free Bible plan Author of The God Delusion says providing free Bibles to state schools is justified by [...]

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“a fish rots from the head”… or does it?

More than once, listening to Bamakois vent their frustrations at their unresponsive government and politicians, I’ve been reminded of my own country, where we have the best Congress money can buy and where corporations have the freedom to bankroll candidates who advance their interests over and above the common good. Whether in Washington or in [...]

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The Tower of Babel… or RBS?

  Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.  As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.  They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.  Then they said, “Come, let us build [...]

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David Cameron, the Bible and Eddie Arthur

While my blog has been pretty quiet of late, my friend and colleague Eddie Arthur has been more typically prolific. When Prime Minister David Cameron recently spoke at the KJB 400th celebrations at Oxford and commented on the teaching of the Bible for our somewhat broken society, I wanted to write something. But I couldn’t [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No3

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our third and final (for now at least) suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. I should add, Mr Cameron, that I am slightly apprehensive that some of my readers are equating these ideas with some of your current policies eg the NHS and weekly bin collections and thinking that I, [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No2

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our second suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d receive money instead [...]

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How to fix the UK economy No1

Dear Mr. Cameron, Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan: You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force. [...]

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Evangelical Alliance NI welcomes a new Director…

… and just in time for the NI Assembly Elections! Peter Lynas, a former barrister, political researcher and theology graduate of Regent College in Vancouver has recently joined us here at Evangelical Alliance NI as the new national director and will be combining this role with his position as operations director at Causeway Coast Vineyard. [...]

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Bigots, radio mics, and the power of words

My friend and Baptist pastor Alan Wilson blogs  as Coastal Pastor: he wrote this morning… Here are two questions in the light of Mr Brown’s stumble. How often do we flatter people to their faces while hiding a deep dislike, or even contempt for them in our hearts? How would we fare if we discovered [...]

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Archbishop of York urges Britain to vote

I had the pleasure of hearing John Sentamu speaking in Belfast on the eve of the recent Kingdom Come conference. One thing I vividly remember him saying was that while the “talking heads” would have us believe that Britain has become a secular state, as he travels around the country, he sees something different. Especially [...]

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