Anything from Noel Due is worth reading. You can hardly believe that the church is God’s fullness if you look with the eyes of sight. It always looks weak and beggarly – full of failure, no God. Yet because it’s the family of the Father, because it is inseparably the bride of Christ, because it …

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While trolling is meant to be confined to inflammatory behaviour on the internet, I think it can encompass face to face behaviour as well. This article on Today I Found Out started out answering the question about whether Queen Elizabeth 2 needs a passport (she doesn’t), moves on to observe that she also doesn’t require …

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John Paul White was one half of dissolved duo The Civil Wars. He’s just released a solo album called Beulah. It’s a very accomplished guitar and vocal driven work that traverses a range of rock/folk/country/americana/acoustic/electric styles while still sounding recognisable to Civil Wars fans. There’s sadness, happiness and maybe some wisdom in these lyrics. Here’s …

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