Dave Hop

There’s a moment in John’s blog about the resurrection that set me thinking this Easter Sunday morning. John and Peter run like Ussain Bolt to the tomb of Jesus when …

I heard an interview this week with Danny Boyle, the film director who made Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and MIllions. Oh yes. And that little thing called the Olympic …

If your old enough and er… wise enough… you may remember Dick Emery’s skinhead son, always messing up with his dad, the great Roy Kinnear. And before the catch phrase …

Every so often some joke or cartoon about Christianity comes along and enters the collective psyche of the world at large. Especially in this YouTube age. Sometimes they are satirical, …

I learnt the Greek word for conversation just yesterday. And the Latin too. I was reading more of Nick page’s Kingdom of Fools. And in particular the way Eutychus falls asleep …

The D is silent. The repercussions won’t be. In the movie Django Unchained Christoph Waltz plays King Schultz, a bounty hunter who trades flesh for cash. He brings in bad guys …

Not long after I wrote a book called The Bloke’s Bible I started to do seminars called Real Men Don’t Go to Church. It was really a sort of fact finding mission …

I caught an interview with Brian Cox on the radio the other day and heard him talking about the Apollo 8 lunar mission. He described the way the astronauts  Frank Borman, …

Just reading Nick page’s fine book about Acts – Kingdom of Fools – and yet again discovered something new. Stephen (in the book of Acts) is remembered as the first martyr, …

Doctor: So what can I do you for you? God: I feel depressed. Doc: How can you? You’re the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. The almighty, the …

At a recent service I spoke about the wedding at Cana, and Jesus spending a lot of times at parties, and the way he likened God’s kingdom to a feast. …

I am fast coming to the conclusion that I am the dullest person I know. I recently turned 50 and to celebrate I did two incredible things – I went …

Before going to church yesterday morning I was listening to the radio and caught another news story where the main issue seemed to be – who can we blame? Things …

Apparently Christmas cracker jokes are bad for a reason. If they were genuinely funny some would laugh and some would not. Humour varies. They would in essence be divisive. Whereas bad jokes unite …

Apparently it’s all over. No more Mayan Calendar. You won’t find next year’s edition in WH Smiths. Their technicolor, all star, celebrity 2013 Calendar won’t be on sale in Tesco. The …

She ran away. Took up and left. Abandoning a messy situation. Gossip, shame, fingers pointing. Family in disarray, relationship up in the air and looking like it was on its last …

One of the things that makes the God of the Bible different to other gods is that he is invisible and non-boxable. He is beyond size, time, matter, substance. There …

A friend mentioned yesterday that St Nicholas is patron saint of prostitutes.  Apparently it’s been all over Twitter. It’s all based on the account of Nick taking pity on a father who had …

One day I went to God and asked him, ‘Why do I have to pretend? Why has organised church become this tidy place of nice, neat cliche’s? The catch-phrase faith …

Just led a writing day yesterday with Stage-Fright Theatre Co. in Wokingham, and as we looked at the parables it struck me yet again how much Jesus messes with history. …