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Wilderness and the Garden: Sermon Preached on 31st March 2024 (Easter Day)

Since the invasion of Ukraine, we have entered a geopolitical wilderness. Resurrection only follows the wilderness in the story of Jesus. Continue reading

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View from Yerevan in The Tablet

It’s good to be in print in this week’s The Tablet (11 August 2022 edition) with a “View from Yerevan” – a piece about beautiful town planning, the revival and the absence of churches, losing a war, refugees from far … Continue reading

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Afghanistan Exposes the West’s Crisis as it did the Soviets’

This post originally appeared on Slugger O’Toole The Soviet Empire was undone by three things – firstly, overstretching itself, especially through the acquisition of a series of Global South satrapies from Nicaragua through Ethiopia to Vietnam in the 1970s and … Continue reading

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Orbán, Trianon, and the Rebirth of Nationalism

It is well worth reading Viktor Orbán’s speech on the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon, which was last Thursday and I didn’t even notice until it passed. Let’s start with this passage towards the end, which needs little … Continue reading

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