In the weeks since Nathaniel was born, Jane and I keep seeing buggies everywhere we go. I’m sure they weren’t there a couple of months ago, but now we see them round ever corner! We’ve even got to the point of walking along and just saying ‘buggy’ (no points involved, sadly). It’s amazing how simply […]
I probably don’t have the time or place in my course to investigate this question properly, but it’s a really interesting one. What happens when the Emperor becomes a Christian? First of all, some of the assumptions that I’m making. Jesus primarily teaches groups, not individuals (the exception that proves the rule – John 3) […]
When I’m preparing for seminars at LST I end up running down all kinds of rabbit holes. I’m also trying to reconcile the historic and often conservative teachings of scripture that I’ve been brought up in with the expanding view of God that I am embracing. My narrow view of the gospel has too be […]
Rest might seem the most ridiculous thing for someone with a two-week-old baby to write about, but Krish Kandiah‘s conversation on facebook and blog post on rest got me thinking. This is an expansion of my comment on his post, perhaps a little more thought through (although with the sleep deprivation…) Firstly, I have to […]
Is love logical or illogical? In my usual, slightly perverse manner I replied ‘Yes’. Love that’s not logical has not been thought through. Love needs to be wrestled with, it engages the whole person. A love that is not logical might be irrational, not thought through, not deep, just a whim, passing. It may be […]
It seems like everyone in the world is talking about the X Factor results show (at least on my Facebook feed!) BBC News are talking about the millions that Simon Cowell is earning from being paid to make a show that gains him revenue from advertisers so desperate to attach their brands to the new […]
Mark chapter 4 is probably titled something like “The Parable of the Sower” in your Bible. If you were German, it would be more likely to be called “the Four Soils”. Preparing for my seminar on Friday, I found some of the commentators want to talk about the four (or six) seeds, rather than where […]
Two Rabbis sat and discussed the Torah for days and weeks and months and years. Years and years passed and they still discussed this one, small, passage of the Torah. It may be said that God has the patience of a saint, but after 20 years of listening to their arguments over this one passage, […]