Why justice without mercy fails

Each year, as College Chaplain at Worcester College at the University of Oxford, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright would meet first year undergraduates, welcoming them to the college and breaking the ice. Most were happy to meet him; but others said, โ€œYou wonโ€™t be seeing much of me; I donโ€™t believe in god.โ€ I …

How God rewards innocent suffering

A sermon by Rod Benson on Psalm 16. Itโ€™s all very well to praise God in song on Sunday morning, surrounded by the people of God. But what happens on Monday when I am alone in the universe, and I face familiar demons, and feel the panic rising; or I put the phone to my …