Review of Andrew Atherstone & John Maiden (eds), Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century (The Boydell Press, 2014).
A review of an “indispensable guide” to evangelicals in the Church of England last century
Articles
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 11.13-36
The important lesson from God’s dogged insistence not to give up on Israel in spite of Israel’s repeated failure is simply this: God never breaks his promises.
Review Article on Andrew Atherstone & John Maiden (eds), Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century (The Boydell Press, 2014).
A detailed account and engagement with the eleven chapters exploring aspects of evangelicalism and the Church of England last century.
The Michael Ramsey Book Prize 2016
Review of two of the Michael Ramsey Shortlist – by Francis Spufford and Frances Young
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 11.1-12
We Christians have frequently looked at the Jews and reckoned them people on whom God has given up, a people whose failure makes them somehow less than us in God’s eyes. But Paul reminds us here that precisely the opposite is true.
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 10.14-21
If Paul is right, and God had always had it as part of his plan to bring you and me into the fold of his flock and the family of his kingdom, then God really is extraordinarily gracious and kind.
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 10.5-13
It’s therefore critically important for us, this Lent, to ask ourselves: how can I confess that Christ is my Lord the better? How can I live, and what can I say, so that I confess the lordship of Christ better?
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 9.30-10.4
It is a great irony that, the more we try to earn God’s favour, the more we make a mockery of his grace, and hence the more difficult it is for us to receive it.
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 9.18-29
So let us this Lent ask God to confront us in scripture, and, as we read his word, to show up where our lives need to change.
Reading Romans Through Lent – Romans 9.10-17
Trying to make sense of what God does with us and with others (why me? why her? why not me?) is a fool’s errand. We just don’t know; and we are not supposed to know. What we do know is that God is good, and that he loves us.