As a young man I stumbled into a fascinating opportunity. On a short-term mission trip to eastern Europe, after a series of fortunate events, I found myself standing in front of a classroom full of students in the English department of Ivano Franko university in what was still at that time the Soviet Union. Excited over the prospect that his students would hear a native speaker of English, the pro...

All good things must come to an end. Well, that’s not completely true. God himself is the greatest good, and he is eternal. But in this life, the good things, and the bad things – are temporary.One of the good things – and frustrating things – that is coming to an end is online church. Now, as I’ll explain in a moment, online church is a bit of an oxymoron – like flying elephants, pink unicorns, a...

A jarring scene in one of my favourite films (Chariots of Fire) occurs when Harold Abrams, the famed British athlete, lost his first race ever. In fairness, he was competing against one of the top four fastest humans known at the time, the ‘Flying Scotsman’ Eric Liddell. Having trained relentlessly, he made a fundamental mistake at the finish line.Rather than looking straight ahead, rather than ke...