A N Wilson changes his Easter tune!
I was a green and callow undergraduate in 1992 – present at a debate between A N Wilson (who’d recently produced his iconoclastic hatchet job,
13th April 2009
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forgiveness
Why Easter is Jesus not Lazarus
It came up in a question at NWA last week after one of my talks. And it’s important. Because it marks the fundamental difference between
11th April 2009
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Resurrection Bullets – a few thoughts for Easter 09
To coincide with EA’s Slipstream co-ordinated blogathon for Easter, here are a few random bullets on Jesus’ Resurrection. And because i feel in the mood
9th April 2009
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U2’s NLOTH spiritual resonances (part 2)
Here are some more random thoughts. Magnificent In tone, this is the most explicitly biblical song on the album. It isa psalm, nothing less. Beth
6th March 2009
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saints with a past, sinners with a future…
At last been catching up with House Season 4 on DVD. Watched what has become one of my favourite episodes ever last night: 4:9 Games
26th February 2009
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Mandela at 90: The world in search of a hero
Well, we were there. Regulars may be thinking that we spend our lives heading off to big rock gigs, but that’s far from the truth.
3rd July 2008
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ELF08 – the marks of Christian community: some Colossians gems from Lindsay Brown
My heart slightly sank when I noticed that Lindsay Brown’s morning expositions were going to be on Colossians. This was certainly not because Lindsay was
28th May 2008
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Defending the indefensible? A private school education!
There’s been a lot of talk about this. Far too much, I’d say. So it is no longer really news at all – but guess
6th May 2008
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Introduction to the Cross
Well it’s done and posted. After much dilly-dallying and prevarication (see 7th Feb post), I’ve at last managed to get the Theology Network Introduction to
1st April 2008
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Stopped in my tracks – by Ed Husain’s THE ISLAMIST
This book has courted controversy in all quarters. It’s not hard to see why – read some of the different reviews linked here (which range
19th February 2008
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TV theology 2: LOST’s Sayid experiences the liberation of real forgiveness
In my opinion, LOST Season 3 is much better than Season 2 (the latter just got silly – well more silly than the other stuff).
24th January 2008
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TV Theology 1: ER exposes postmodern forgiveness
Thanks are due for this to my friend, Paul Carter, the-pastor-with-his-eye-on-the-pulse (if you can have eyes on pulses) over there in Virginia. Last week’s ER
23rd January 2008
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