2024

  • Hagar: a woman for all seasons

    Genesis 16. 1-16; Genesis 21 8-21 One of my students did a research project on the lives of marginalised women in Addis Ababa. She found that few of the group she engaged with had any…

2022

  • The angels who came first

    Two Gospel angles on the visits of the angels. Matthew 1 18-25; Luke 1 26-36 We regularly come across angels in the run-up to Christmas. We see them in displays in shops and online stores…

2016

  • How to Spend Lent?

    Time Out. Time in Apparently Lent has been trending on Twitter! I’m wondering what that says about the way Christians have taken up the challenge of social media. For the rest of Lent I am…