Australian weddings have changed — a lot, and that means marriage has changed as well. One of remarkable trends is the rise of civil celebrant weddings. These tell us a lot about how Aussie’s think about weddings, marriage and life.…
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God’s Ambassadors
Chad Van Dixhoorn, God’s Ambassadors: The Westminster Assembly and the Reformation of the English Pulpit, 1643–1653. Reformation Heritage Books, 2017. 240 pages. Chad Van Dixhoorn, the authority on the Westminster Assembly, offers an intriguing study of the Assembly and how…
You should read more poetry
A while ago I was going to write something to encourage theological students to read some poetry. Then I realised, it should be a poem. Here it is. You should read more poetry. Words tracing images across pages diving into…
Disruptive Witness – a review
What if much of our Christian witness is self-cancelling? Could it be that we often to white noise which leaves most people deaf to God? Maybe our attempts to proclaim Christ subvert the structures which should make the gospel plausible.…
Gospel and Kingdom or Covenant?
Like lots of young Christians who grew up in Australian evangelicalism, Graeme Goldsworthy’s biblical theology showed me the unity of the Bible. I read the Bible with the framework of Gospel and Kingdom for twenty years. Then I started to…