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May 3 (Easter 5) Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 This week’s Gospel story takes us back to the evening of his arrest and his preparing the disciples for what is to come – and how they are to live. Amidst the strange words and confusion...

When Andrew Root steps into the conversation at ONE this October, he brings more than academic insight. He brings a reframing of the questions many churches have been asking, and a challenge to the assumptions beneath them. Root, a professor at Luther Seminary in the United States, has become one...

Review: Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapses, Luke Kemp, Penguin In his book of collapsology, Luke Kemp turns much received wisdom about barbarism and civilisation on its head. It’s the product of an enormous amount of research and contemplation, and it’s a goliath of a book, partly...

A recent essay in Christianity Today has reignited an old Christian concern with a very modern setting: social media. The article, “The Social Media Navel Gaze,” argues that today’s digital culture has revived a spiritual problem long recognised by Christian thinkers: the habit of turning endlessly inward rather than outward...

In October 2026, an event will take place at Wesley Mission Conference Centre. It is being called ONE—and that name is deliberate. Not a brand, not a slogan, but a statement of intent. At a time when the Church faces both uncertainty and opportunity, ONE is an invitation to come...

Review: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Lamorna Ash, Bloomsbury We hear much about simultaneous decline and revival in Western Christianity but there isn’t another book on contemporary Christianity quite like Lamorna Ash’s. The writer of a previous book on the Cornish fishing industry, in this new book she likewise takes...