By Phil StokesI’m reflecting on the fact that it is all too easy to make decisions that affect the people around us without letting them in on the process. What is the process? We set our hearts on something. We think or fear that it may not be approved. We hold our cards close and […]
By Philip Parnham There is a way of reading Hebrew words that does not start with a dictionary, but with a story. For the Hebrew script did not begin as an abstract code but as a versatile image-carrier. Each letter has a pictorial ancestry. For example, I understand aleph (א), the first letter of the […]
A Vision For London from Phil Stokes Something is stirring in the neighbourhood. As well as the well documented ‘Quiet Revival’, the unexpected movement of a younger generation back to church, I am noticing a spike in people expressing an interest in a different mode of doing church. The legacy model of church built around […]
That may work for some, but to me it feels too top-down and propositional. This is essentially a creed-first approach. In contrast to that, I find myself increasingly drawn to the worldview of observant Jews for whom faith is more deed than creed.
30 May 2025 Author Philip Parnham I have been reading with great interest recent obituaries of Alasdair MacIntyre (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025). MacIntyre, a Scottish-American philosopher, was famously critical of the Enlightenment project which, he argued, had divorced modern Westerners from both tradition and the good life. As I understand it, MacIntyre […]
