Victory!
Christ our passover has been sacrificed for us: so let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven of corruption and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Christ once raised from the dead dies no …
Tag: Holy Spirit
Annunciate
Something has struck me about the Annunciation. Read carefully. In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the …
Reasonable and Holy – A Review
Let me get one thing straight right at the start. I really wanted to like this book. I did, I truly did. I was looking forward to getting my hands on a book written from a liberal perspective on human …
Alter Christus?
Here’s a brilliant video (courtesy of Jeff) which looks at the priesthood from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church. There are various views of ordination and ministry that exist in the Church of England. Some evangelicals tend more towards …
Rowan’s Address to Synod
You can read the full thing here. For me, the key sections around human sexuality are these. The debate over the status and vocational possibilities of LGBT people in the Church is not helped by ignoring the existing facts, which …
Sexuality and Slavery – Part Two
In my last post I looked at the question of what forms of homosexual relationship might have been recognised by Paul and the other New Testament writers. I concluded with the observation that given the diverse Roman / Hellenistic world …