It used to be that I was part of a team of people with chronic illness who researched and wrote about the government’s actions on social...

I was interested today in the contrast between the sermon preached at my church today and that preached two weeks ago. Today, the speaker...

I love gardening. I love sitting on the ground in the sun removing weeds, dead-heading flowers or re-training a clematis. I love pruning...

This morning I started reading the book Neither Poverty Nor Riches by the American Craig L Blomberg. I can’t tell you how refreshing I...

This is the third of three blog posts triggered by the book, The Myth of Undeserving Poor, which I recently finished reading. If you read...

In my last blog post I discussed the myth of the undeserving poor, referencing a number of articles which prove the tenacity of the UK...

I recently finished reading The Myth of the Undeserving Poor: a Christian response to poverty in Britain today by Martin Charlesworth and...

II recently picked up the Church of England’s (CofE) 1986 report on the welfare state, Not Just For the Poor. It’s only 138 pages, so it...

Recently I have started listening to the back catalogue of podcasts from the Messiah Matters (previously, I think, the Rob and Caleb...

One argument that I sometimes hear from those who are perhaps more right-wing politically, including Christians, is that our response to...

My heart would have been full this week if my body weren’t so weary. My heart would be full because the outpouring of community spirit...

I have been thinking recently about what Christian lending and borrowing would look like if we tried to incorporate Biblical principles,...

I am opposed to the idea of a Universal Basic Income on economic grounds – I don’t think that the sorts of money needed to lift those...

My church has an evening meeting on Sundays, either a bible study and discussion or a prayer session. Every Sunday evening it makes me...

Dear Jonathan Reynolds, Re: Welfare should reflect ‘what you put in’ to tackle public mistrust, says Labour’s shadow DWP secretary I am...

We prayed today for the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the knee of a white police officer. We prayed for his family, for the...

This evening we had a Bible study on Ephesians 1:15-23 and the prayer it contains. Paul was writing to a church he had spent two years...

Down the centuries there have been some notable Christian achievements done for the good of people and to the glory of God. Christians...

It is, when I get down to it, fear. Fear because the people who need to care don’t care. Fear because I can’t get them to care. I can’t...

There is a major issue around where I live that the churches lack credibility in the community. This is a longstanding issue stemming...