When you pray…
Ian B. Do you pray? Have you thought about the way you pray, and how you address God when you pray? Have you listened to the ways other people pray? One Bible…
Why Study the Bible?
A couple of weeks ago the Sunday morning theme at church was ‘Why Study the Bible?’ As I’m currently on sabbatical from church to enable me to study the Bible,…
Let my people go…
Freedom… for what? “Let my people go” is the well-known refrain of the opening chapters of Exodus, which BiOY has reached early in February. In Exodus 3:16-18 God tells Moses…
The Job of Mission
By happy coincidence my Bible in One Year plan has been taking me through Job at the same time as I have been reading Tim Davy’s The Book of Job…
Sabbatical – Day 1
Today I start a three month sabbatical from CCC. My main purpose during this time is to research and write the dissertation for my MA course in Contemporary Missiology, with…
Reading the Bible like Jesus
A reflection on Luke 2-4, based on the talk for CCC 2 January 2022 In 2022 we’re aiming to grow in ‘living like Jesus did’ (1 John 2:6), and we’re…
The Making of Biblical Womanhood – Beth Allison Barr
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth A deconstruction of complementarianism showing how it is not a recovery of a historical or scriptural understanding…
A Ball of Whacks
I wrote this two and a half years ago. I don’t know where all the Whacks pieces are now, but teeth brushing can still be an issue. A Ball of…
On inadvertently quoting Playboy
I have never knowingly quoted Playboy magazine before, and I have no expectation that I shall do so again, but it turns out that, in my blog a couple of…
What Mary Did
At the end of Lent 2021, during which I was encouraged by a friend to grow in creativity, I was preparing my talk for church on Easter Sunday. Drawing from…