My Talks
gives you a selection of my public teaching -
Past Topics 2
JESUS AND ‘THE STUPID CLUB’
- Some think of Jesus as just a good and talented man who was unlucky and died young, like a wasted rock star. This easy option is deprived us by the resurrection….
THE AUDIT CULTURE
- The goal of today’s audit culture is to effect quick change. This contrasts painfully with the call to patience in the parable of the seed.
Among the subtle but rapid changes in today’s workplace
FACE OFF
- One interrogation in the early hours defined the two views of power which wrestle for the soul of this world.
The encounter between Jesus and Pontius Pilate is visceral, shocking and deeply symbolic.
AWKWARD
- Jesus empowered people who were disabled, giving them choices over their future. Is the modern Church as welcoming, especially towards those who have been disabled from birth?
WHAT JAMES BOND AND JEAN-LUC PICARD TELL US ABOUT INTERCESSORY PRAYER
- There are heavy footprints and light footprints of prayer. To overcome opposition, we need to know which to make.
BREAKING TABOOS
- There are modern versions of ritual uncleanness that affect who we relate to. They are taboos waiting to be shattered. How we define health today is shaped in physical ways. If a person’s body is well, we assume they are healthy.
HOW ON EARTH DO WE PRAY FOR THE WORLD?
- Tips on interceding for the bigger picture. The idea of global citizenship may be overstated today – most people don’t travel the world or express great interest in every corner of it – but a sense of global duty is one of the marks...
WHY US?
- The momentum of grace compels us to share it with others; the only scandal is our failure to do so. Manchester City’s temperamental striker, Mario Ballotelli, once famously lifted up his football shirt
SECOND CHANCES
- What we were should not disqualify us from what we might be for God.
Intelligence agencies have come to rely on the psychological profile of the suicide bomber and it would be interesting to know how they would respond to
HOW TO CHASE HUMILITY WITHOUT LOOKING SO OBVIOUS ABOUT IT
- The modern culture of self-promotion sits uneasily with the Christian priority of humility.