Start them young…
Reuben is obviously destined for the pulpit…
Category: Scripture
Pentecost Battle of the Bishops
Just read these two interesting blog pieces. Firstly Bishop Alan Wilson Pentecost does raise in acute form the question of what we really believe Christianity is. It burst on the world as a process of incarnation, God bursting out of …
Who is the woman who annoints Jesus with perfume?
In response to a question from one of “my flock”, here’s an email I’ve just composed trying to get to grips with the different Gospel accounts. Your comments are welcome! Right…. This one of those cases where the same story …
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Seeing Christ in the Old Testament
This morning’s readings gave us another example from Genesis of how Christ and the truth of what he achieved on the cross is already being laid out for us in Torah. Our small staff group reading and praying together have …
Sexuality and Slavery – Part Five
Back in the summer I began a series examining the Biblical passages around homosexual behaviour with a view to approaching the texts afresh to explore whether some of theology that I currently have was in any sense assumptive. You can …
Cutting Out Scripture
If you read Morning Prayer this morning in the Church of England you’ll have noticed that a portion of the Old Testament text for today was omitted from the official reading. Here for all to see is what we were …