Steve Stewart has recently complete his PhD thesis. The following is a short summary of one chapter, “The Law of Moses in John’s Prologue: the Law As Central to a Jewish Fourth Gospel”, in which he ...
Paul offers us a remarkable exposition of life in the Spirit. There is a dense cluster of Trinitarian language in the first ...
On Sunday evening, General Synod debate the Carlisle Diocesan motion (which they had passed in 2021) asking us to 'receive' ...
The readings for Trinity 8 in Year A are Romans 8.26–39, the ‘pinnacle’ of the New Testament, and Matt 13.31-33, 44-52, the collection of short—yet vivid and compelling—parables of the kingdom not yet ...
If gentiles are now coming to faith in Jesus, and many Jews are not, has the word of God and his promise to Israel failed? That is the critical question Paul starts to address in Roman 9.1–5, the ...
Steve Stewart has recently complete his PhD thesis. The following is a short summary of one chapter, “The Law of Moses in John’s Prologue: the Law As Central to a Jewish Fourth Gospel”, in which he ...
The lectionary gospel reading for the Trinity 7 in Year A once more splits up a text in order to unite a parable and its interpretation by Jesus, though with less damage than was done previously. The ...
The gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 5 in this Year A is another odd selection of verses, Matthew 11.16–19 and 25–30. It is yet one more occasion where we could really do with a lectionary ...
Romans 7.15–25a is the epistle for Trinity 5 in Year A, and includes the famous ‘I’-passage over which there has been much debate. Is Paul speaking in the first person recounting his own experience as ...
Most of what we know about early Christianity we know from texts. Indeed, the degree to which these Jesus-communities engaged in textual activities (reading, writing, memorising, teaching, copying) ...
General Synod is planning to have a debate about the Kairos II Palestine document on Sunday night. In theory, it is claimed to be a listening to the voice of our Palestinian Christian brethren. But in ...
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