All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy