GS 2123 For hundreds of years, the New Forest has had its own Romany community. In 1926, seven compounds were…
General Synod Speech: Ministry to Children and Young People
GS 2121 According the research published in From Anecdote to Evidence, 48% of our churches have fewer than 5 children…
Synod speech #2 (in case I don’t get to give it)
The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons I wonder if you had like me a long journey to get here. I was…
Synod speech #1 (in case I don’t get to give it)
London/Truro Diocesan Synod Motion on Environmental Programmes My 11 and 13 year old sons have become a bit obsessed with…
‘Happy Birthday’ to John Barton
And I’m back! In true blogger style, after a few months of commitment, this site was allowed to go fallow…
Mind the Gap: the Hermeneutical Problem of Distanciation
Whilst little Persephone had chicken pox on our lovely summer holiday in Tuscany last week, someone had to sit with…
New book on sale now!
“In much postmodern discourse it has become usual to argue that the biblical text has many meanings (as many as…
Detecting the presence of typological interpretation in the New Testament
‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man will be lifted up’ John…
Shared Conversations and Biblical Interpretation
In November last year I went on one of the regional shared conversations about human sexuality that are part of…
Hot off the press!!
I’ve just received several copies of the latest issue of Churchman with an article I wrote about biblical interpretation which…