Love in the Time of Corona
A great sermon from Monica O’Neil on what it means to follow Jesus when threatened by a pandemic. This is worth listening to. (With apologies to Gabriel García Márquez) Love in the Time of Corona …
Scripture on Sunday – John 9:39
Recently I read through the Gospel of John, reflecting on it one chapter at a time and making some notes. Of course I have read John previously, some parts of it many times. Nevertheless I found myself arrested when I arrived at …
As A New Semester Begins…
I wonder what the apostle Paul might make of the critical study of the Scriptures? In my mind there is no doubt that this mode of study is a double-edged sword. Critical studies of Scripture have expanded our knowledge of the Bible, …
4 3 2 1
Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (London: Faber & Faber, 2013) 1070pp. ISBN: 978-0-571-32465-1 It seems I can only read a big novel when I am on holiday; life seems too busy otherwise. This is certainly the biggest novel I have read …
Journal of Baptist Theology in Context
John Olley, former Principal here at Vose Seminary, has alerted me to the launch of a new Baptist journal: the Journal of Baptist Theology in Context. The ‘in context’ part of the title locates the focus of the journal in the interface …
The Iliad
Homer, The Iliad Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 1987), lv + 460pp. ISBN:978-0-14-044444-5. Finally I have taken down this epic of Western culture and literature, after its having sat waiting on my shelf for many years, and read it. What a tragic and …
The Lost Letters of Pergamum
Longenecker, Bruce W., The Lost Letters of Pergamum (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003). 192pp. ISBN: 0-8010-2607-5. For some reason I was drawn again to this little epistolary novel which the subtitle tells us it is a “story from the New Testament world.” …
New Edition of “Election, Barth & the French Connection”
The second edition of Simon Hattrell’s (editor and translator) book on Karl Barth and Pierre Maury is now available from Wipf & Stock. This is an enlarged edition of the book with several additional essays including one by myself entitled “The Light …
Why leadership matters…
Leadership guru Peter Drucker once said that only three things come naturally to all organisations: friction, confusion and under-performance. Everything else requires leadership. It’s worth thinking about. My observation is that those in church circles have an uneasy relationship with leadership. …
From FOMO to hello to here…
Do you, like me, often want to be somewhere else? It’s not that I’m unhappy where I am, it’s just that in a world filled with many options and possibilities – well, why wouldn’t you explore them all? Those younger than me …