Bill Love, TEC and same-sex marriage: implications
This article first appeared on Psephizo. Following my previous post which explored the Hearing Panel ruling on Bishop Bill Love and the background to it, this article seeks to begin exploring some…
Bishop Bill Love, TEC, and same-sex marriage in the church
This article first appeared on Psephizo. The recent negative judgment by The Episcopal Church’s Hearing Panel on Bishop Bill Love’s pastoral direction nearly two years ago to the clergy of his diocese…
Providence and Purpose in Pandemic
Before this pandemic I would imagine that most Christians knew very little about how the Church has responded to pandemics and plagues in the past. In recent months however I…
Beer and Theology: Future Dates
We have excellent Beer and Theology speakers lined up for the next few months, so here are some dates for your diaries.
The Regions and Tribes of Evangelical Theology: The Catholics Part 2: Ecumenical Evangelical Catholics
This is the fifth of eight articles exploring the present state of Evangelical theology. The first, second, third and fourth can be found here, here, here and here. Introduction We…
Reformed Sacramentality: A Book Review
Dorothea H. Bertschmann reviews Graham R. Hughes’ Reformed Sacramentality (ed. Steffen Lösel; Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2017), an alternative approach to sacramental theology in the Reformed tradition ‘Reformed Sacramentality’ seems to…
The Regions and Tribes of Evangelical Theology: The Catholics Part 1: Confessional Evangelical Catholics
This is the fourth of eight articles exploring the present state of Evangelical theology. The first, second and third can be found here, here, and here. Introduction In the last…
The Regions and Tribes of Evangelical Theology: The Classicists, Part Two: Classical Postconservative Evangelicals
This is the third of eight articles exploring the present state of Evangelical theology. The first and second can be found here and here. Introduction In the last article, we…
The Regions and Tribes of Evangelical Theology: The Classicists, Part One: Classical Conservative Evangelicals
This is the second of eight articles exploring the present state of Evangelical theology. The first can be found here. The Classical Region We begin our journey across the landscape…
The Regions and Tribes of Evangelical Theology: Introduction
This is the first of eight articles exploring the present state of Evangelical theology Evangelicalism has always been a country of competing tribes. Even in the 18th Century revival, the…
J.I. Packer – A Personal Thank You
As I have taken various steps forward in my ministry over the years, I have to my surprise sometimes found very large footprints in front of me. They are the…
Obituary: J.I. Packer
With the death of J. I. (‘Jim’) Packer, Anglican evangelicalism has lost one of its most significant theological voices, as well as a guiding figure of the National Evangelical Anglican…
Combating Racism in Britain in 1983
In preparing for our retirement move to Cambridge later this summer, I rediscovered a paper I had written 37 years ago. I prepared it for a workshop which I was…
Why we need a God who suffers impassibly
In my last piece; ‘Why we need a God who does not suffer’, I laid out in brief the case for impassibility: the notion that God does not suffer, held…
Hope Under Judgement: A reflection on theology and race after the killing of George Floyd
I feel a distinct uneasiness as I attempt to write some reflections on the brutal killing of George Floyd and the subsequent events. It’s an uneasiness borne of the tension…
On the Prime Minister’s Advisor’s trip to Dover
In a single weekend, the government’s lead in the opinion polls has fallen 10%. The public are outraged by what they see as pure hypocrisy. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister is…
Enforced Sabbath?
On a tumultuous day preceding Pilate’s careless, populist, hand-washing referendum that was to dispassionately determine the fate of Jesus, a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the ground for…