Some Kierkegaard
Just to remind us occasionally – probably the best thing he ever said. The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to …
Category: Scripture
A Tight Balancing Act
There’s a very interesting dialogue (I use the term “dialogue” in its loosest form) going on at the moment between Fulcrum and Stand Firm on the subject of the Evangelical Church’s expression of its doctrine of marriage in the wider …
Sexuality and Slavery – Part Four
In my previous post in this series I looked at the Greek word arsenokoites. We looked at what it’s literal meaning was, what the first century context of the word was and we explored a number of revisionist arguments about …
Marriage is not about Justice, but Jesus
A few weeks ago my wife and I drove north to attend a friend’s wedding in Derbyshire. It was a great joy to be able join the two returned missionaries from Africa as they prepared to spend the rest of …
A Thought for Today
Not doing the blogging I planned to (and promised you) as other things eating up my time. Will try to have some stuff up on malakoi sometime next week. In the meanwhile… Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in …
Sexuality and Slavery – Part Three
In my last post I looked at one specific example of how understanding the contemporary context of a passage can help discern its true meaning. We looked the use of the word pais in Matthew and Luke and saw how …