Faithfulness Matters Bible Study The Patriarch, his wife, the Pharaoh and the slave by Jody Stowell ‘The Glory of God is a human being fully alive’ IRENAEUS The above quotation from the early church is one of my favourites and it seemed right to use this as the basis from which I wrote a Bible … Continue Reading
Inaugural lecture at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews 26th October 2011 The four gospels stand magisterially at the head of the canon and the centre of early Christianity. They are remarkable documents. If they had been lost for centuries, and then dug up last year in the sands of Egypt, they would be … Continue Reading
The Results of Praying for Evangelical Scholarship by Gordon Kuhrt Co-published with the Church of England Newspaper, with permission 19th August 2011 In the 1940s and '50s, some thoughtful Evangelical leaders encouraged prayer for a renewal of Evangelical scholarship, especially in the areas of biblical studies and biblical theology. Liberal theology seemed to reign unchallenged. … Continue Reading
Launch of Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into practice in the Local Church by Stephen Kuhrt On Tuesday 19th July at Christ Church, New Malden, Stephen Kuhrt gave a talk on his book Tom Wright for Everyone and then answered questions about it. The questions included his response to the … Continue Reading
‘Have you understood all this?’ Reflections on Matthew 12: 31 – 52 ‘have you understood all this?’ It seems to me that it is quite a bold reply that the disciples give to this question that Jesus asks, right at the end of the text in Matthew, which some of us will have had read … Continue Reading
an edited version of a sermon preached at the leavers’ service, Trinity College, Bristol, 4 June 2011 also published in Church of England Newspaper, 8th July 2011 Introduction In Alan Bennett’s play, Forty Years On (1968), there is an intriguing dialogue between Lady Dundown and her butler: Lady Dundown: I see the Dean of Windsor … Continue Reading
Originally published in Church of England Newspaper on 9th June 2011. The discussion about women and ministry in the Church of England has continued to be fascinating, challenging and frustrating in different measures for some time. For me, the most recent experience was speaking at a Deanery Synod, as one of three speakers giving different … Continue Reading
by Paul Roberts The biggest “Christian” internet event of the year so far was the prediction that the world was going to end on 21st May 2011 at 6pm in each time-zone. The reaction by Christians has been either to ignore it, to join in lampooning it as extremely stupid, to protest loudly that they … Continue Reading
by John Martin There’s nothing new about rapture predictions, just that the Internet means more people hear about them. Counted among my friends is a very unusual Seventh-Day Adventist. An American, he was for some years based in England as general secretary of the movement in this country. His father and grandfather before him were … Continue Reading
Tom Wright for Everyone Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into practice in the Local Church (SPCK £9.99) by Stephen Kuhrt So what caused me to write a book with the somewhat cheeky title Tom Wright for Everyone? My motivation was simple: to provide more people with access to the ground-breaking biblical scholarship of N.T. … Continue Reading