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Nov 29, 2021
A helpful resource to engage with LLF
A review of Martin Davie's Living in Love and Faith: A Concise Introduction & Review The Living in Love and Faith project can feel at...
Nov 17, 2021
Leading with the Long Term View
When we are about to embark on a significant journey, it helps not only to know where we are going, but also to have at least a general...
Nov 15, 2021
Illuminating mind and soul
A review of Kirsten Birkett's, 'And The Light Shineth In Darkness: Faith, Reason and Knowledge in the Reformation.' The late Dr. R.C....
Nov 8, 2021
Grace as gift
This is an excerpt of Allan Chapple's book 'True Devotion. In Search of Authentic Spirituality' p 34-35 How does a ‘spirituality of...
Nov 1, 2021
Women in the Church
A little history of women’s ministry Leoba Leoba was born in Wessex in the early part of the 8th century. She was taught by an Abbess and...
Oct 30, 2021
Martin's insightful book list
This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations. In this edition: Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther: Restoring...
Oct 30, 2021
Interpreting the Bible
A review of Ben Sargent's book 'As it is Written: Interpreting the Bible with Boldness'. Ben Sargent’s book, As it is Written, manages to...
Oct 28, 2021
'Why we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land' (Ps. 137:4)
“I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God himself” [GF Handel, on composing Messiah.] On September 11th this year...
Oct 27, 2021
The Puritan story ‘warts and all’
A review of Matthew Rowley's 'Toxic and Intoxicating: Puritan Theology and the Thirst for Power' Today there is a strong movement to...
Oct 26, 2021
Licenced locally, operating more globally: lessons from dual-screen ministry
Dual-screen ministry I recently found myself describing my ministry as a little like having two screens on one’s desk and needing to keep...
Oct 25, 2021
How do Sydney Anglicans answer the 'lawyer's question'?
When I took a call from our brother, the Rev Rinzi Lama, Dean of the Anglican Church of Nepal, I was struck by his compassion for those...
Oct 6, 2021
Christian Mission for all seasons
In the last sixty years there have been two major developments in the church's understanding of its mission. Firstly, the extent of...
Sep 30, 2021
Martin's insightful booklist
This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations. In this edition: People not Pronouns: Reflections on...
Sep 25, 2021
What are we training women for?
Part 2 So what are we training women for? That isn’t a rhetorical question. (Nor am I saying that training women is pointless! Don’t even...
Sep 24, 2021
What are we training women for?
Part 1 Let me be more specific (if equally provocative). My particular ‘we’ is, in this instance, those of us in conservative evangelical...
Sep 20, 2021
Is there a problem with God's mercy?
Reflections on Jonah. Here in Duffield, at the end of August, we had a children’s holiday club across both our churches, studying the...
Sep 14, 2021
Parables of Lostness
Reflections on Luke 15 - part 2 As we continue these 'Parables of Lostness', we come to the the third movement which bring us at last to...
Sep 13, 2021
Parables of Lostness
Reflections on Luke 15 - PART 1 How many of us are constantly losing or misplacing things? You never notice that something is not lost...
Sep 1, 2021
Good biblical leadership
A review of 'Remember your Leaders' by Wallace Benn. Reading “Remember your Leaders” alongside Hebrews 13 is a very good way of spending...
Aug 25, 2021
A helpful resource on Canon Law
A review of The Development of the Church of England’s Canons from 1969 to 2020, edited by Gerald Bray I am no expert when it comes to...
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