Filming outside the RNLI lifeboat station in Penarth, with their flag flying behind me, a question came to mind.What would Jesus make of Y Ddraig Goch, the Welsh Red Dragon?What does He think about national identity, language, culture, and the fierce pride people feel about where they are from?J…
Standing on Penarth esplanade, beside an Italian Garden that marks a century of welcome, WelshRev asks one of the most pressing questions facing Wales today: can a nation be both genuinely open and genuinely honest?Wales has declared itself a Nation of Sanctuary. That is a noble instinct. But good…
Is it actually okay to be a patriot ... to love your country, your people, your language?Yes.Absolutely, yes.The Bible is full of it: Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, Paul saying he could almost wish himself cut off from God if it would save his people, Nehemiah in tears over a broken city.Passion…
There's a song in heaven celebrating a Lamb who was killed, who purchased people for God from every tribe, every language, every people, every nation. But that word "from" matters more than you might think.It doesn't mean every single person from every nation automatically ends up in God's story. …
Standing on Penarth seafront, Simon asks a simple question: what does God think of Wales?Revelation 5:9 describes a heavenly scene where people are gathered "from every tribe and language and people and nation" before God's throne, every language included, every nation kept distinct, not erased in…
National Identity, the Red Dragon, and a Vision That Reaches Further Than Any Flag Jesus was from somewhere. That is easy to overlook, but it matters.He was from Nazareth: a small, undistinguished town in Galilee, part of a people livin…
There is something quietly remarkable about Penarth's Italian Garden.It has been standing for a hundred years. And embedded in its history is a story of welcome: Italian families who came to South Wales around the time of the Second World War, who…
Patriotism, Scripture, and the line that must not be crossedIs it okay to love where you're from? To love your people, your land, your language, your history?Yes. Absolutely, yes.This is not a trick question, and the answer is not grudging o…