Within the evangelical world in which I grew up and came to faith, sin was a really big deal. Frequently referred to, both in sermons at church and in talks on summer camps, sin was presented as the barrier of human selfishness and pride that was blocking our relationship with God. As evangelical Christians, the … Continue Reading
Official announcement and text of the Lenten Pastoral Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Primates of the Anglican Communion and Moderators of the United Churches, concerning plans for the Lambeth Conference in 2008, 9 March 2006. Fulcrum
‘Theological Education for Leadership from the Margins: Implications for Leadership Training in Inherited Churches’, by Rob Mackintosh, Executive Director, The Leadership Institute, Canterbury, January 2006 Fulcrum
Andrew GoddardAndrew Goddard served on the Leadership Team of Fulcrum from its launch in 2003 until 2020. He currently teaches Christian ethics at Westminster Theological Centre and Ridley Hall, Cambridge and is Assistant Minister at St James the Less, Pimlico where his wife, Lis, is Vicar. He has previously taught at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and … Continue Reading
A poem by Alan Storkey So you believe no God created this, no great design, but just a happenstance, not personal, but rather hit or miss, not even aim, but just a primal dance of stupid chemicals. Yet even they need pre-constructing into atom, quark, from which non-aiming hits, you say, the universe was made. … Continue Reading
The Bishop of Bangor, the Right Reverend Anthony Crockett, responds to Dr Andrew Goddard’s posting of his chapter Calvin, Usury and Evangelical Moral Theology on the Fulcrum website (Page references, unless otherwise indicated, are to Dr Goddard’s text as produced by my printer from the Fulcrum website, and not to the original in the festschrift … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Newsletter, February 2006 by Francis Bridger The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number Dear Fulcrum friends, How should we think of the ‘Evangelical centre?’ Recent discussion on the Fulcrum forum threads has raised the interesting question of whether it … Continue Reading
New Testament Eschatology for the Emerging Church Andrew Perriman Paternoster Press, 2005, price £17.99 ISBN 1-84227-299-3 www.authenticmedia.co.uk/paternoster A Fulcrum review by James Mercer This is a fascinating book that repays serious study. It is certainly no casual bed-time read. Andrew Perriman’s argument is based on a close study of scriptural texts and other ancient sources. … Continue Reading
The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number Growing up within evangelical subculture certainly gave me many things for which I will always be grateful: sustained affirmation of the personal relationship that I can have with God through Jesus, the breeding … Continue Reading
Originally published in Sung Wook Chung (ed), Alister E McGrath and Evangelical Theology: A Dynamic Engagement, Paternoster Press, 2003, pp235-63. Reprinted here with the kind permission of Paternoster. The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number At the start of a … Continue Reading