Opinions/reflections - July - December 2019
| Baptist minister Ross Dilnot suffered life-changing injuries in 2016. He's now an Air Ambulance Service chaplain |
| A book written some 550–600 years before Christ has much to say to the postmodern, post-truth times we live in today |
| A reflection by Gale Richards on the recent Baptist International Conference on Theological Education |
| Ali Taylor was invited to create a mosaic at the recent Baptist International Conference on Theological Education |
| The church can support some of the most vulnerable in society by joining the campaign for tax justice |
| What are we, as followers of Jesus, to make of the horrible passages of the Bible? A reflection on Judges 19 |
| Is deconstruction back sliding? My faith has been strengthened by questioning the assumptions I grew up with |
| Faith offers some practical and ancient medications which help to treat the global outbreak of consumeritis |
| Former Christian counsellor and school nurse Mary Weeks Millard focuses on a troubled teenager in her latest novel |
| Jesus is in the business of re-igniting the stuttering candle, not pressing his thumb on it. Are we? |
| September is a good time to consider the deeper change God longs for in our churches, writes Trevor Neill |
| One way a language teacher can serve God is by challenging the underlying consumerist messages in their text books |
| Retired Baptist minister Joe Story explains why he's set up an alternative publishing house - with several books on baptism |
| Why I am cynical about the approach of modern worship, writes Baptist minister Michael Shaw |
| Stigma has been reduced but the dread surrounding dementia is still high. The biggest hope, and the biggest myth-buster, is having accurate information and acting on it, writes Louise Morse |
| Social justice and deliverance ministry in the Baptist church. The need is growing, writes Jayne Irlam |
| Christians are not immune to the pressure of never being or having enough. How do we re-establish our identity in God’s love? |
| Text of the address given by Andy Goodliff, the 'token man' at the 5 October event celebrating 100 years of ordaining women to Baptist ministry |
| On climate change, the church should be the voice calling from the wilderness, writes Michael Shaw. We need to be bolder |
| The desire to measure and value everything in monetary terms always tends to dehumanisation. As people of a gracious God surely we know that the most important things in life are free? |
| There were few Baptist voices at Extinction Rebellion. As Baptists, have we lost our non-conformist and dissenting roots, asks Michael Shaw? |
| Rescue brings its own culture and identity challenges, which are explored in a new novel set in post-war Britain |
| Across the world vulnerability is being exploited - with sometimes devastating consequences, writes Dan Pratt |
| Baptist minister Richard Littledale introduces his series of short, candid thoughts and reflections from his own experience of widowhood |
| Challenged to write a modern day psalm, Jonathan Brewer of South Wales Baptist College employed the language and ideas of a technological generation |
| The passage in the Book of Lamentations that every Christian should know. By Colin Sedgwick |
| A free video course to help prepare people for believers' baptism has been released. This reflection on living baptised for the long haul is taken from the course |
| Newly-elected MPs need to arrive at Parliament knowing that their constituents care about people facing persecution, and alerted to the need for action |
| Look back, look forward and look around, writes Chris Goswami |
| Even if we disagree on party politics, we find Scripture gives us a way to approach our political life, writes Beth Allison-Glenny
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| The Psalm 23 Garden is the product of deep thinking about the text, and offers the chance to stop, reflect, and feel refreshed. Mark Woods explains more |
| Visiting a person with dementia is an invisible gift that can be life-changing, writes Louise Morse |
| The coming of Christ was political then and it's political today, writes Andy Goodliff |
| The present is changed by what the future holds: what does it mean to be a Community of Expectation? By John Rackley |
| As Christmas approaches, let’s picture the pondering Mary, and allow ourselves time and space to stop and reflect on what God is doing in our life |
| Rich Blake-Lobb, pastor of Yiewsley Baptist Church, reflects on the hustings hosted by his church |
| Two blogs that highlighted some longstanding questions about the Christian faith received the most attention in 2019 |
| This isn’t a survival ‘don’t rock the boat’ sort of mindset – but rather a reckless ‘nothing is impossible for God’ approach |