The Bible in the jungle: Ingrid Betancourt’s testimony

30 May

I’ve just finished reading Ingrid Betancourt’s fabulous account of her six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle, Even silence has an end. (Virago, 2010)

Health and salvation: we’re in this together

30 Mar

World Health Day is April 7th. The Baptist World Alliance has released this helpful and challenging paper, Committing to being centers of health. It would be good to consider what it means for local work-places, streets and communities, and for … Read More »

After the tsunami (4)

17 Mar

It’s now almost 18 months since the tsunami on Samoa which changed my life forever. In these last weeks, as an earthquake devasted Christchurch and now an even bigger earthquake and tsunami in Japan, it all keeps rushing back to … Read More »

The pastor as leader

8 Mar

Just a few snippets from some recent thinking about the pastor as leader. Recently a friend shared these thoughts he had found in his journal from some years ago. He had written down these lines from an article in Leadership … Read More »

Meeting with Jesus

30 Nov

This semester I’ve been teaching a unit called Who is Jesus? It’s been a good class and we’ve had a good time together. Now I’ve finished the assessments and as always I feel that I have learned a lot from … Read More »

Three kinds of groups—and life-style

24 Nov

Recently I read and greatly enjoyed Gordon MacDonald’s book Who Stole My Church? It’s a good read; very insightful and very relevant to many situations familiar to me and I think to my students.

Theological Compost (2) Biographies give life

16 Nov

One of the big influences in my teaching and my theological work has been a passion for life stories, biographies. Jim McClendon’s Biography as Theology has been an inspiration. I’ve found lots of people respond most to life stories as … Read More »