by devotionalia | Mar 31, 2025 | Christianity
What a 2,000-Year-Old Story Reveals About Our Cancel Culture Everywhere we look, we read tales of divisiveness, cancel culture and moral outrage. Perhaps a look at an ancient story about a father with two difficult sons might be the radical text we need most. The...
by devotionalia | Mar 29, 2025 | Christianity
“Why do I have to believe before you give me any proof?” This old chestnut. This is a question I’ve heard many times, and it’s a fair one. I’ve asked it myself thousands of times, and sometimes I still do, regardless of how many theological and philosophical texts I...
by devotionalia | Mar 23, 2025 | Christianity, Philosophy, Spirituality
Why more people are becoming spiritual but not religious I’m having my Sunday morning latte again while watching the smartly dressed folk heading into the church. Meanwhile, just a few doors down, there is a building that used to be a church and is now a...
by devotionalia | Mar 21, 2025 | Christianity, Philosophy
How faith helps with grief. Every now and then, life has a habit of punching an ugly hole in our parachute. It happened to me last year. One minute, I was drifting around, admiring the scenery and the next minute, hurtling towards the ground thinking, “Well, this is...
by devotionalia | Mar 19, 2025 | Christianity
For whatever random and accidental YouTube algorithm reason, I ended up watching the Jane and Michael Banks song last night as they outlined their wishlist for what they would want in a Nanny. ♫♪♪ “If you want this choice position, have a cheery...
by devotionalia | Mar 18, 2025 | Anglicanism, Christianity, Lutheranism, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist, Roman Catholic
I was sitting in my local coffee shop on Sunday morning and I noticed something curious. One group of smartly-dressed people hurrying their way to church, while everyone around me was lazily sipping their lattes and scrolling on the phones. It struck me that many...
by devotionalia | Mar 17, 2025 | Philosophy
Ethical theories. Ethics. Words that get thrown around a lot, especially these days, with businesses focusing on sustainability, social enterprises, purpose, use of AI, etc. But what does it mean to be ‘ethical’? What is an ethical theory? Why should you...
by devotionalia | Mar 14, 2025 | About
For 25 years, I built a career in management consulting. I climbed the corporate ladder, took on bigger change management projects — where the reality was that most people didn’t actually want change — and put in the late nights, the weekend implementations, and the...
by devotionalia | Mar 5, 2025 | Christianity
After overindulging on the pancakes last night, today I am thinking about Lent. (It was Shrove Tuesday, or ‘Pancake Day’ for the uninitiated). But is there a deeper, spiritual meaning of Lent than just giving up some favourite foods? Every year, as Lent approaches,...
by devotionalia | Mar 4, 2025 | Christianity, Reformed/Calvinist, UK Politics, US Politics
The Rise of Christian Nationalism in the UK: Are We Importing a US-style Religious Right? For years, the idea of a British ‘religious right’ was passively dismissed as a media exaggeration. In 2013, a report by UK-based conservative religious think tank Theos, Is...
