Part of my Sabbatical involves reading – books about Tamil language and culture, cross-cultural ministry, world Christianity, the church in general. Some novels too.   Here is my current list but I’d love to hear other suggestions …   The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins Turning the Tables on Mission, Olofinjana, Edwards, Gidoomal Liberating the Gospel, […]

As I make my plans for study and travel the news has been dominated by the shooting of 50 people in Orlando, Florida. The news is terrible and our immediate response should be to weep and to pray. Sadly the media seems to have lost the ability to do this. Instead it has quickly become […]

In order to prepare me for Sri Lanka, which has experienced terrible flooding recently, this is what I did today when the church was flooded … again!? Interesting that this happened the week after we finished our series on the Sermon on the Mount – did the wise man build on the rock?   John.