Whose Story is it?
Who Gets to Narrate the World? This is a great question and is the title of a short and stirring book by Robert Webber. It’s subtitled: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals. Webber believed this question…
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The city of God
The front page headline yesterday proclaimed: ‘Pride and Prejudice’. But where did the prejudice lie? Our city has rejected ‘the narrow door’ ( Luke 13:24) and the paper was proudly displaying its colours. We live in sad times in our…
Watkins on Time
My Spin cycle classes run for 45 minutes. But, as I sweat and struggle my way through a one minute sprint, I always find it helpful when the instructor informs us that there are just 15 seconds to go. A…
Watkins on Promise
I referred to Christopher Watkin’s book ‘Biblical Critical Theory’ yesterday. I do like what he had to say about Promise in his chapter on Abraham (ch 9). “Promise is a biblical figure that nestles under the overarching category of grace.…