Dear Friends

we have just published John Martin's review of Andrew Goddard's book on Rowan Williams' Archiepiscopate.

We are very proud of Andrew!

Please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Jonathan Chaplin's article reflecting on the funeral of Baroness Thatcher and the Church of England's role.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Gordon Kuhrt's review of the collection of biographies of Martyn Lloyd Jones' life.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published 'Trident' by David Atkinson.

An article first published in the Church Times.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published 'My Experiences in Atbara' by Rebecca Mallinson.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Alison Morgan's review of David Goodhew's research on church growth.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Ian Paul's article 'Seven reasons why I didn't like Comic Relief 2013'.

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Hi Friends

we have just published Carrie Longton's short reflection on the November Synod.

Please do use this thread for discussion and if you're interested come and be part of the conversation at the Conference!

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Graham Tomlin's article advertising St Mellitus' conference 'The Holy Spirit: Capturing the Imagination of the Culture.'

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Dear Friends

we have just published Gordon Kuhrt's CEN article 'From all evasion and 'cover up' - Good Lord Deliver Us!'

please use this thread for discussion.

blessings, Jody

Gulp Erasmus!

I'm afraid I disagree with you on almost every point you make :) - despite the fact that we seem to agree on the conclusion (although I'm not sure we do really), how you get there is very different to how I get there I suppose.

Liberation is not compartmentalised as you suggest I would argue.  The nebulous sense in which we are 'freed from sin' has an outworking that is far more than 'incidental', particularly to the Israelites, when they were freed from Egypt (I get no sense from the text that they thought this an 'incidental' part of the Gospel to them!).  Today we have slavery at an enormous level and again I would say that their 'actual' freedom from slavery is at the heart of the Gospel.

I do not see the restoration of the relationship between women and men as something which is a whim of a 'dying world' and I do not see this as a 'dying world' come to that.  The restoration and transformation of the relationship between men and women was God's intention from the beginning, our call as the imago dei is to be in partnership with God in the missio dei to build the regnum dei (Image, Mission, Kingdom of God).

Thus the call for people to get off their arse and work towards the equality of men and women is not a side issue, a secondary issue or incidental - it's at the heart of God's work in the world.  A world which is moving towards its own transformation and will see perfection in the eschaton, not death....

There is no neutrality on this one.

Jody

Dear Friends

we continue our exploration of women bishops with my article which was published by the Church Times as part of a theological resource on this subject alongside other contributors.

the article published here is an extended version: 'Women Bishops: An Ordinary Radical Event'

please do continue discussion here.

blessings, Jody