Tag: culture

The call to (de)influence: an article and an interview.

The other week I wrote a piece for Connecting with Culture, the weekly email from London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC). In it, I reflected on the rise of ‘deinfluencers’, and the dual role of Christians to deinfluence and influence, through a combination of prophetic critique and joyful celebration. If you fancy a read, you can…

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Gaia: Has the church silenced the sermon of creation?

‘The heavens declare the glory of God;    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.Day after day they pour forth speech;    night after night they reveal knowledge…Their voice goes out into all the earth,    their words to the ends of the world.’ (Psalm 19.1-2, 4) ‘Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen,…

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Looking for a Saviour: Solar Power and Lorde’s spiritual quest

In the summer of 2017, we took a family holiday to France. One of the albums we played on repeat as we drove was Lorde’s Melodrama. It’s a beautiful, moody, layered, self-reflective, electro-pop album, and although not as commercially successful as her first album Pure Heroine, it’s my favourite of the two. And despite the…

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A Church Called Tov

Some reflections on A Church Called Tov, by Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer

How to Reach your Context

What is contextualisation and how should we do it? A recording from a recent online hangout for The Broadcast Network (video)

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“Every day, we change the world, but to change the world in a way that means anything, that takes more time than most people have…”

Death by a Thousand Photos

Some reflections on photography, technology and the morbid irony in our craving to make things ‘unmissable.’