2024-03-28T18:58:49+00:00

Like many young Christians, spiritual growth accelerated for me after I left home. I met Christians from other denominations at university, and was exposed to a new marketplace of ideas. Through the influence of friends, I began to see God as kinder and gentler than I’d previously thought. One of my classmates was a Christian woman called Jayne, or Jay for short. Over time she became a dear friend, but the relationship hit a difficult patch in my third year,... Read more

2021-07-10T16:36:16+01:00

In the library of popular worship songs, guilt and shame are often referred to in the same breath – ‘you took my guilt and shame’ – but herein lies a trap, as the Bible does not treat them as interchangeable concepts. The Bible is an Eastern book, and its concept of shame is an Eastern concept. In Biblical terms, shame is closer to embarrassment, to losing face, than it is to guilt. Shame is fundamentally harmful, and in this, secular... Read more


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