The church’s services as chaplain to this democracy are no longer required. You’ve been given your P45; your severance pay is in the mail.

This is roughly what Walter Brueggemann said to a Presbyterian audience in America.* It is perhaps how the church in the UK feels when we hear, for example, that it is unlawful for prayers to be included on the agenda of council meetings. (more…)

Johnston McMaster delivered this year’s Catherwood Lecture, speaking under the title of:

Signing up to the Covenant: An Alternative Vision for the Future? (more…)

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