When helping the homeless doesn’t help (full article)
Just over ten years ago I was the manager of a sixty-bed cold weather shelter for young homeless people...
What Evangelicals Have Done to Sin
Within the evangelical world in which I grew up and came to faith, sin was a really big deal. ...
What does salvation mean in the urban context?
Salvation in South London? In 2007 the shootings in south London of three young men: Billy Cox in...
Westminster’s homeless ban is wrong but soup runs need to change
Westminster City Council’s proposals to ban both rough sleeping and soup runs within the Victoria area...
UK riots: a moral vacuum and a tinderbox
The Co-operative supermarket at the end of my road was smashed up and looted in the riots that flared...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Managing People Badly
A letter from a senior to a junior devil… (with apologies to C.S. Lewis) Dear Wormwood, I write to you...
The Practice of Grace and Truth with Homeless People
In the paper, I argue that Christian theology, especially the themes of grace and truth, can help us...
Spirituality is part of caring
Social projects should be bolder about integrating faith and practical action, argues Jon Kuhrt....
Social Action at the Crossroads
‘Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it,...
Resisting Tribal Theology and Going Deeper Together
(published as a chapter in Crossover City – Resources for Urban Mission and Transformation [Continuum,...