Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 12004 Christians and tattoos is a subject that produces a good deal of confident assertion and rather little careful reading. One verse gets quoted, the conversation stops, and a young believer with a cross on his forearm is left feeling that he has done something shameful. I think we can do better than that….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 12003 Few subjects generate more heat and less light among British believers than Christians and alcohol. Some congregations treat total abstinence as a settled biblical command. Others treat drinking as so unremarkable that they never mention it at all. Both are avoiding what Scripture actually says, which is more careful than either position and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11091 Dancing in church divides congregations more sharply than the biblical evidence really warrants, and it does so because the argument is almost never about the texts. It is about culture, temperament, memory of previous churches, and a set of instincts that people find difficult to articulate. So let me try to separate what…