“If I wasn’t a follower of Jesus and I was looking in on the Twitter feeds of Christians, I would think several different things about who Jesus really is by the way people talk about him.” When the parents of my daughter’s friends discovered the other day we were Christians, they asked if we were […]
Thousands of marble crosses and Jewish stars all lined up almost as far as you could see. One was to an unknown solider. “Known to God” was the inscription. A couple of weeks ago I went for a fast blast across Belgium and France on my motorbike with a mate. The agenda consisted of clear European […]
For Threads 300th post, they asked Carl Beech to tell us just why he loves the epic testosterone-fuelled film 300… The Battle of Thermopylae is the stuff of legend. It’s around 480BC and 300 Spartan warriors face an invasion force of 300,000 Persians. Against the odds they determine to hold them off at a narrow […]
Carl Beech kicks off his all-male guest editor week with a challenge to all of us to realise that we are all deeper and more complex than might appear on the surface. Okay, before we get into this, I need to lay my cards face up on the table. I like fast cars and motorbikes […]
I’ve noticed a trend among Christians that’s starting to make me feel grumpy. It may just be the people or organisations that I ‘follow’, but as I look through my Twitter feed I notice that the vast majority of comments are on issues such as justice, food banks, trafficking, gender issues, politics etc. All of […]
In case you missed it, today is International Men’s Day. It’s not an officially sanctioned United Nations day but it’s now recognised in over 60 nations around the world, so let’s get behind it! This year the focus is as follows :- ‘Keeping Men and Boys Safe’ The five challenges for 2013: 1. Tackling male […]
I had a fantastic week of travels two weeks ago and met a number of fantastic leaders and men. First stop was in Whitehaven (Cumbria) where I spoke on reaching working class men with the gospel. I met a very dedicated group of people who had decided to move the church out of the town […]
I’ve been thinking a great deal over the years about the way we communicate the “good news” about Jesus to men. We wonder why we see so few men becoming followers of Jesus but fail to effectively and analytically look at the message we are communicating, the way we are communicating it and who we […]
I suppose I’m a fairly typical guy. I love Top Gear, sport and action movies. I love extreme (ish) endurance challenges, prog rock (cant believe I just admitted that) and nothing more than and banter filled evening with my mates. I’m also madly and deeply in love with my wife of 19 years and I […]
The last time I was interviewed by Christian.co.uk, it was the most-read article on their website for weeks on end. This interview was written and first published by Sam Hailes here… Having seen the head of Christian Vision for Men (CVM) give his seminar at New Wine, I waited patiently as a queue of people […]
