Whydunit?
Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.
What Would Jesus Tweet?
I write a weekly column for The Dallas Morning News as a contributor to their Texas Faith blog. This week we were asked, "What would Jesus…
A Theology of Florence & the Machine’s Ceremonials
The setting for the video of 'No Light No Light', the second single from 2011's Ceremonials – a traditional church building complete…
The Name's Bond
James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…
A Vogue for Vincent
Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…
War Horse
How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…
Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll – Does Jesus Spoil All the Fun?
Isn't following Jesus all about rules that stop you living the way you want?
A Christian Response to A.C. Grayling's Against All Gods
A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, begins his self-described ‘polemic’ against…
The Design Inference – a critical review
In this article, Peter S. Williams defends one of the key statements of Intelligent Design theory, namely that specified complexity…