2nd November 2025 Last week, I was in Wittenberg for the LCMS’ International Church Relations Conference. I have been to Wittenberg before. Most of our worship services were in St Mary’s (the town church) but one service was held at All Saint’s Church (the castle…
26th October 2025 “Worldwide people in more countries are living better lives and expressing more hope for the future than they had in years.” This was the first line of some analysis from the polling company Gallup as explained on BBC’s ‘More or Less: Behind…
19th October 2025 The ELCE’s pastoral conference met this week in London. It is good to get together. I’ve been known to say that the ELCE is a PhD waiting to happen because ELCE pastors come from different Lutheran churches around the world with their…
12th October 2025 I laughed and laughed! My life is ‘controlled’ by algorithms – and in this case they don’t make sense but I didn’t care. (I just saved £180 on my insurance!) My insurance premium rose over 12% and before the automatic renewal happened,…
5th October 2025 The family story of how our third child has his name – Michael – is part of our family lore. Charlotte and I were choosing names as you do and it came down to a short list for a boy or a…
The ILC World Assembly met last week under the theme ‘Unity in Christ: Confession and Cooperation in a Fragmented World’. It was a gathering of more than 130 people from 55 countries from 61 Lutheran churches – and those were the official folk! There…
21st September 2025 When people ask me about Ascension I describe our comings and goings in the phrase we used at the beginning – “we’re a home for some and a ‘whistle stop’ for others”. We have folk who live in Suffolk or Norfolk permanently…
I am not knowingly using AI but I know Artificial Intelligence is all around me. I have been in meetings or in email conversations where people have used it to get information, produce a document, summarise relevant items and because they know the topics…
I was looking for the sugar in my daughter’s kitchen. Though she doesn’t use much sugar I knew she had some. It’s in the cupboard. Except it wasn’t. I was momentarily stumped as I was sure it was there and having been accused of…
Dr Martin Luther wrote a summary of what he believed so that those who came after him couldn’t claim his words for their own ends (Luther Works Vol. 37 p.360-372). He talked about what he believed and what he wanted to say about his…
