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Why casting directors avoid Galileans like Jesus
“Is anyone here from Liverpool?” My daughter was having breakfast at a residential conference in the Home Counties when suddenly this...

Ross Moughtin
Apr 8, 2016
How do you see reality?
“I’m a liar. Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist.” So...

Ross Moughtin
Apr 1, 2016
When the Cross has to go, at great expense
Of course, the cross had to go – even at great expense to the college. Just beyond the Rochdale canal nestled De La Salle college in...

Ross Moughtin
Mar 25, 2016
When God gives you the keys
This Wednesday night, along with son-in-law Andrew, I managed to be thrown out of the Tower of London and then locked back in. All I can...

Ross Moughtin
Mar 18, 2016
When we are misquoted
So Archbishop Justin makes the lead on this morning’s Radio 4 news. Significant. What is worrying however, is that he also makes the...

Ross Moughtin
Mar 11, 2016
Suffering for the Gospel, simply part of our job description
This time yesterday I decided to forego my hotel breakfast. Heroic. The reason? So Jacqui and I could attend a prayer meeting at the...

Ross Moughtin
Mar 4, 2016
Seyðisfjörður – where nothing ever happens. Until now
Seyðisfjörður. A place I long to visit, in a land of chunky knit jumpers, heavy-duty snow shovels and unpronounceable Christian names. ...

Ross Moughtin
Feb 26, 2016
To go without sleep, like Jesus
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night,’ reflected William Blake. Clearly the author of the...

Ross Moughtin
Feb 19, 2016
What keeps us going in the dark
Both hugely important but in very different ways. I refer to the two significant items which dominate this morning’s news: the...

Ross Moughtin
Feb 12, 2016
Why Jesus loves the circumflex
Alors, the days of the circumflex are numbered! I picked up this gem from this morning’s Guardian which informs us that for some...

Ross Moughtin
Feb 5, 2016
Some things take time – like War and Peace
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peacein 20 minutes” quipped Woody Allen. “It involves Russia.” So hats off to...

Ross Moughtin
Jan 29, 2016
Facing the perfect storm
Some more disturbing headlines this morning, First, another major weather event, as the US north east seaboard awaits snowmageddon....

Ross Moughtin
Jan 22, 2016
To give God the first
It is Friday today, isn’t it? I ask this because here in Tenerife each day is the same. I can see us missing the flight home through...

Ross Moughtin
Jan 15, 2016
To see reality differently
It is the year 2052. Works of literature are banished and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart. So I did. That is the...

Ross Moughtin
Jan 8, 2016
Can God be trusted with a blank cheque?
Do I trust God with a blank cheque on my life? That is essentially the challenge of the Wesley Covenant Prayer used by many British...

Ross Moughtin
Jan 1, 2016
The wonder of Christmas
Merry Christmas, folks! It may be Christmas Day but it is still a Friday, which means my compulsion to blog. (I should seek counselling...

Ross Moughtin
Dec 25, 2015
Joy, not jollity, when all is bleak
Fascinating tweet yesterday from London vicar (and Guardian columnist) Giles Fraser: "Blue Christmas" service for those who hate too...

Ross Moughtin
Dec 18, 2015
When we stand (or sleep!) for justice
“When I work with the poor they call me a saint; when I ask why they’re poor they call me a communist.” So said the Roman Catholic...

Ross Moughtin
Dec 11, 2015
Prayer as opt out
Prayer as opt out. That was the message of the front page of New York ‘Daily News” following the San Bernardino shootings on Wednesday....

Ross Moughtin
Dec 4, 2015
To share Jesus is to push on an open door.
Beware: I have just completed a four-day course. “Transforming Conversations.” For the record, I had to. Three-line whip from the...

Ross Moughtin
Nov 27, 2015
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