We cannot but be surprised…

‘The New Testament is pervaded by references to the Song of Songs, and all of them are based on the supposition that it is to be interpreted spiritually. Proportionally no book of the Old Testament is so frequently referred to, implicitly or explicitly, in the New Testament, as this one; and we cannot but [...]

The hows and whys of summer camps

[Disclaimer: these posts are all about British Christian summer camps. I'm pretty sure that some of this is also relevant to the US system, but quite a lot of it probably isn't.]
I am by no means a neutral observer here. I became a Christian on a summer camp 19 years ago. For [...]

Tregelles

Probably if you’re interested in NT text criticism, you already know this, but just in case you haven’t heard, Tyndale House launched a new version of Tregelles’s Greek New Testament this week. There is a transcription of the original and a corrected edition both available for free download at the website.
According to Dirk Jongkind, [...]

Hebrew for laypeople

I can’t think of a better way of keeping your Hebrew going after college than to start teaching it to others. Find a few keen people in your congregation and follow this syllabus. It’ll be good for you and great for them.

More news

I feel like I should be running an ‘Appointments and Resignations’ category on the blog at the moment.
The latest round includes:
The very good news of the appointments of Hector Morrison as Principal of HTC, and of my own supervisor, Jamie Grant, as his Vice-Principal. Hector, together with Andrew McGowan, has been involved in HTC [...]

Today’s conversational theology

In the kitchen this morning I met Onesimus who, in addition to having a fantastic name, is also doing some interesting research into the history of marriage in the church. Apparently, the notion that marriages should happen in churches, performed by ministers, is a mediaeval one. Thomas Aquinas made the case for marriage [...]

Sad news

I’m very grateful indeed to have been at Oak Hill at the right time to have been blessed by the teaching of David Field.

(Not) thinking about the sacraments

Over the last couple of years I’ve met a small handful of people who are unbaptised believers and regularly receive the supper. When I express shock and horror at this, they seem surprised. Why should this be a problem?
Well, readers, over to you. How would you answer that?

Where can you do conversational theology?

My new daily routine involves a lunchtime swim, usually with my friend Karyn. It’s a really fun way to take a break in the middle of the day, to forget all about the complexities of the Greek verbal system or the dullness of first century Hellenistic religion and philosophy. Today as we were [...]

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