Book Review: So Great a Salvation
This book piqued my interest as it concerns one thing that I am fascinated by – soteriology, ie what it means when we talk about being saved – and a concept I am increasingly engaging with, namely theological reflection from … Continued
Don’t Read, Listen! An Older Conference Paper
A few years ago, I was lucky to be part of Ecclesia and Ethics, an online/hybrid theological conference, considering the way that social media affects our humanity. I gave a paper that was based on an essay written for my Master’s … Continued
Book Review: 5 Views on Justification
The issue of the Doctrine of Justification has long been a contentious one. As this volume recounts in its superb introduction, it was not a central issue of debate in the early centuries of the Church, but was a central … Continued
Top Reads: September 2018
After August, usually comes September. This month’s edition of ‘Top Reads’ includes a few things that I actually read previously, but couldn’t fit in a list of 10. MORE: Distinct by Calvin Samuel. TLDR? Great little book on holiness that … Continued
Book Review: Travel
Disclaimer – I used to work for IVP, who published this little book, and they sent me a review copy. I hope neither of those facts cloud my review. A long time, almost ten years, ago, I met the author … Continued
World Mental Health Day 2018
Today is World Mental Health Awareness Day. One day, I hope that ‘days’ like this will not be necessary. Because of my faith in Jesus, I have a sure and certain hope that that will one day be the case. … Continued
Book Review: A Call to Spiritual Reformation
In reading and researching fairly widely around the topic of prayer, I’ve consumed and discarded a wide range of books on the topic. There are, it seems, a myriad of approaches to this all-important issue, and it genuinely looks like … Continued
Division and Truth
A friend shared on Facebook a quote, unsourced, that has resonated with me overnight: “People who call out false teachers are not divisive, people who embrace false teachers are divisive, and can be deadly“. This got me thinking, and I … Continued
Book Review: Race and Place
In the run up to, and after, the 2018 Society of Vineyard Scholars Conference, I’ve been reflecting a little on what it means for Christians to think theologically and seriously about ‘place’. This book, Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes … Continued
DTLC: Sexuality Week 1
You might have seen my recent post about ‘Doing Theology in the Local Church‘, and the three rough scripts of talky-bits that I delivered as a result. One of the big questions that came out from our first term of doing … Continued