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The Holy Club
(This is the third post in a series. The previous post is here). In the year 1729 a very strange society began to meet in the rooms of John Wesley, a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. It became known...
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Texts of Terror – UPDATED
Roger Olson’s blog is one of my favourites. He writes from a moderate evangelical viewpoint, is a first-class theologian, and he makes me think. And now he’s taking on the ‘texts of terror’: The phrase...
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Roger Olson on how to renew ‘mainline’ churches
This quote comes from the end of a piece on Roger’s blog called ‘Is There Vitality in Mainline Religion?’ So what are my prescriptions for revitalizing old-line Protestantism? First, I suggest they...
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Still happy to be an evangelical Christian
In the Anglican circles I move in, it’s not uncommon to hear people make snide comments about Holy Trinity Brompton (home of the Alpha Course) or All Soul’s, Langham Place (where John Stott was rector...
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I’m an evangelical Christian because…
I get a little tired sometimes of evangelical Christianity being identified by what it’s against. “You know, they’re the ones who hate gays, and bomb abortion clinics, and oppose teaching evolution in...
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Still Happy to be an Evangelical Christian (repost)
I’m reposting this piece from November 2013, because I have recently been told by a good friend (who is not an evangelical) that we ‘nuanced, tolerant evangelicals’ (her phrase) need to keep explaining...
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Summer rambles (in mind, heart and body!)
I haven’t done one of these for a while, but here it is, in no particular order. Anglo-Catholic Anglicans have a strong doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. I...
View ArticleThe Jesus we needed to hear about in 2020
I don’t often confess this to my musical friends, but one of my all-time favourite songwriters was neither a producer of commercial hits nor a writer of traditional folk songs. He was a former...
View ArticleOn What Authority…?
Every time Christians argue about stuff, there are appeals to authority of some kind—the Bible, the church’s traditions, reason—the so-called ‘three-legged stool’ in Anglicanism. But a fourth...
View ArticleEvangelical and Inclusive
Cross-posted to ‘Inclusive Evangelicals‘. This is a revised and expanded edition of a piece I wrote some years ago. Before this website went live, we had a conversation about what we should call it....
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