An Interview with Natalie Collins

22 Feb 2020

An Interview with Natalie Collins

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Apologetics, Being Human, Church Structure, Culture, Digital Theology, Embodiment, Guest Post, Identity, Image of God, Jesus, Leadership, Marriage, Mental Health, New Testament, Personal, Politics, Reading, Revelation, Theology | 0

Regular readers will know that interviews and guest posts are much more interesting than hearing me waffle – even when I disagree with what they say. Natalie is a Gender Justice Specialist, and her new book [which you can preorder!] … Continued

3 Feb 2020

Book Review: Gospel Allegiance

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Book Review, Church History, Ecclesiology, Embodiment, God the Father, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Revival, Theology, Unity | 0

I was glad to get my hands on a copy of this book, as I’d very much enjoyed the author’s more technical and theological explanation of the ideas, Salvation by Allegiance Alone. This book, Gospel Allegiance: What Faith in Jesus Misses for … Continued

19 Jan 2020

Brephos

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Embodiment, Eschatology, Genesis, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Luke, Personal, Psalms, Relationality, Revelation, The Bible, Theology | 0

One of the occupational hazards of a) being interested in what the Bible says about things and b) being an impending dad (my wife gave birth to our first child in March, so if things go quiet here, that’ll be … Continued

16 Jan 2020

Pondering Pastoral Principles

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Culture, Digital Theology, Embodiment, Identity, Leadership, LGBT, Theology, Vineyard | 0

As a Christian living and working in England, I’m naturally quite interested in what the Church of England is doing. I’m not an Anglican, though I have great love and respect for many brothers and sisters in that part of … Continued

2 Dec 2019

Book Review: History and Eschatology

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Apologetics, Atonement, Being Human, Book Review, Church History, Culture, Ecclesiology, Embodiment, Eschatology, God the Father, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Identity, Image of God, Jesus, Justice, Kingdom of God, New Testament, Old Testament, Power, Relationality, The Bible, Theology, Vineyard | 1

Reviewing books by N. T., or Tom, Wright is always an adventure. Partly because there are so many of them, partly because he has fans and detractors in similar numbers, and partly because his output is so broad, covering both … Continued

21 Oct 2019

The Gift of Limits

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Embodiment, Identity, Image of God, Leadership, Mental Health, Romans, Theology | 0

“I am invincible!“ – Boris Grishenko, Goldeneye, 1995 “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities“ – Robert H. Schuller “One of the lessons I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you … Continued

6 Oct 2019

Book Review: Prayer, A Guide for the Perplexed

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Church History, Ecclesiology, Embodiment, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Leadership, Prayer, Reading, Theology | 0

I begin this review with some words from the end of the book: “Prayer is revolutionary. As Christians stand before God in prayer, they stand for the flourishing of common life.” This rather beautiful phrase captures a lot of the … Continued

15 Sep 2019

Book review: The Christian Doctrine of Humanity

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Church History, Disability, Embodiment, Eschatology, Identity, Image of God, Jesus, Reading, The Bible, Theology | 1

Readers should have realised by now that one of my biggest theological interests is ‘theological anthropology’, or rather understanding what it is to be human in an explicitly Christian way, informed by Scripture. This book, then, represents the proceedings of … Continued

9 Sep 2019

An Interview with Doug Erickson

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Charismatic, Ecclesiology, Embodiment, Eschatology, Evangelicalism, Holy Spirit, Identity, Image of God, Jesus, Justice, Kingdom of God, Theology, Vineyard | 0

Could you just say a little bit about yourself? Sure. I’m been married to my best friend for 23 years- Sandi brought me into the movement. When we started dating, I was attending a 3rd wave church, and she was … Continued

3 Sep 2019

Let Us

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Embodiment, Eschatology, God the Father, Holy Spirit, Identity, Image of God, Kingdom of God, Prayer, Psalms, Worship | 0

There’s a typically terrible ‘Christian’ joke that remains in my memory despite my best efforts to expunge it and replace it with something useful, like train times or the exact order of the Minor Prophets. It goes like this: How … Continued

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