Turn off, or keep going?
Bringing light to our Toxic culture?
In opening this month’s blog, I want to say that as we start the run-up to Christmas, there will be no blog next month. I therefore anticipate that the next Blog to drop into your mailboxes – assuming you have signed up to receive blogs by email, will be in January. In the meantime, if there…
Schism
I hope you enjoyed last month’s Blog where Greyson told us his story. I have long wanted to have a trans Christian tell about their true-life experience, as so much in the Christian media tends to be written from an anti-trans position. I hope that at some point I will be able to have others,…
My Story – Greyson: Hope in a scary world
Since I started this in 2021, I have asked a few people to tell me their stories. You can find previous stories on the Blog Log page. This month I have asked Rev Greyson Kentopp to tell me about himself. I first met Greyson earlier this year when he was holidaying in the UK from…
Does the Bible really condemn those who are LGBTQ+?
Short answer – “No”. That will make this the shortest blog ever! But we need to answer the question properly. This month I wanted to respond to two stories hitting the news pages, one on either side of the Atlantic. As I’m based in the UK I’ll deal with the UK one first. The story…
Pride 2025
For the fourth year in a row, I was attending the Pride march in Glasgow. I have talked about the experience in previous blogs released around this time of year. Saturday was mild and cloudy, but we all expected rain around lunchtime, though it was clear some were dressed clearly hoping it wouldn’t come at…
Community
We often talk, or hear others talk about “the LGBTQ+ community”. So, today I wanted to look at the idea of community. What is a community? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How does the Bible view community, and finally, getting more personal, what is my community? A community is a group of people who…
Monitoring our changing society
I realize that most of the blogs I write are what journalists call “long form”, and many people struggle, simply saying TL:DR (Too Long: Didn’t Read). However, I take consolation that many news media take pride in their long-form and slow news pieces. Tortoise Media, the recent purchasers of The Observer are a case in…
Being Trans in a post UK Supreme Court World
I had been puzzling over what to write about this month when we had that now-infamous ruling from the UK Supreme Court, just before Easter, adjudicating that a person’s sex is determined as that assigned at birth, rather than the one the individual identifies with. I then went through the stages of thinking, well that’s…
Being LGBTQ+ in a Trumpian world
I have avoided directly addressing Donald Trump’s return to the White House in previous blogs. though I have referred to it as we have discussed other issues. It is difficult to have any conversation these days that doesn’t at some point touch on the latest edicts coming from the POTUS. A couple of days ago…
Evangelicalism: a closer look
Last month I looked at the idea of integrity and whether it still matters, as we watched the inauguration of a new (well, second-hand) President. I don’t want to focus directly on him again because we have been force-fed so many “edicts” from the White House this month, and for many, the distortion of truth…
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