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Here's the sermon that I shared this morning at St Andrew's Wickford:
The young King Solomon may have been around 20 when he became King and asked for wisdom instead of long life, riches, or the death of his enemies (1 Kings 2.10-12, 3.3-14). God was pleased with Solomon's request and personally answered his prayer. This...

My latest article for Seen and Unseen is 'When converts cracked open the culture’s polished surface' in which I explore how faith’s outsiders disrupted the scene with unexpected force:
'Converts by Melanie McDonagh has been described a ‘thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic’ in the twentieth century. Kathryn Hughes, in her review of the book, notes that: ‘In the five decades between 1910 and 1960,...

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The Frames - Sad Songs.

Here's the sermon I shared this morning at St Andrew's Wickford:
Our Old Testament story from 2 Samuel 24: 9-17 seems a rather strange one. David has the number of fighting men is Israel numbered but then realises that he has sinned in doing so and the punishment for this sin is a pestilence that kills 70,000. In...