Samuel Wells
Two tough questions at the coffee shop
Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
Pure justice is an idol
Atop the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, Lady Justice presides over a long history of injustices.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Where is my love to go?
Imagine God asking that question. You’ll get an insight into God’s heart.
Leave it with me
He was moving away, the stranger said, and he wanted to leave a box in my care.
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
The words I turn to in times of grief and distress
“If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful.”
When the best of times and the worst of times coincide
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.
A non-Christian’s argument for Christianity’s positive influence
Tom Holland doesn’t shout that secularists have no clothes. He whispers that they bear a Christian label.
A neurodiverse God?
The parable of the widow and the unjust judge might give us a radical look at the face of God.
The dirty work of ministry
What two drastically different messages from parishioners taught me
How should the church respond to the colonialism that runs through its blood?
Robert Heaney believes the first step is penance.
Pastors, friendship, and the limits of boundaries
What use are boundaries when you’re sitting with a friend who is about to die?
The refugees on my church’s cricket team
How we stopped seeing a destitute “them” and started seeing wicket keepers and off spinners.
Can libraries save us?
What holds the world together, Eric Klinenberg believes, is social infrastructure.
Why did I go to a charismatic worship service in an arena?
I feared it would last a week. Then came the moment of truth.
A parishioner with Alzheimer’s speaks for herself
She came to our events on dementia and faith. She believed we could do better.
Hopes unseen and unspoken
Here he was: prostrate, limp, a huge tube going down his windpipe.