Do movement leaders, para-church leaders and theological institutions have the courage to call a moratorium on outreach into council estates and housing schemes?

Scotland’s schemes certainly have been—for decades now.

If you come from Glasgow, you are more likely to die younger than if you came from UK cities of a similar size like Liverpool or Manchester. This has been dubbed 'The Glasgow Effect'. So how do we respond to this?

Without the Lord’s work Glasgow will never flourish. Rather than turning to politicians and public health experts; judges and prison governors, we need to look to Christ.

As we look back at Glasgow’s Christian history and the problems which continue to blight it, our prayer would be that our past would point us to the only place where Glasgow can find hope today - in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It seemed as if the more I wanted to distance myself from my old life, the more the church kept me at arms-length for anything else.

In a fallen world, everything is impacted by sin, including our bodies, our minds, and our sense of identity.

It turns out that there really is a great cost to following Jesus.

In Jesus, God invites us to enjoy once again what we were made to enjoy, to be who we were made to be.

A quarter of a century ago, I was shivering in the cold outside Victoria Train Station in London. I was high. I was hungry. I was scared. I was so very angry at the world.