The Old Testament readings in the semi-continuous option for the RCL in September are from the Book of Exodus. Carmen Imes invites us to pose the question as to whose version of reality we are going to trust.
Gaslighting God?
Luke 19 and Post Colonial Preaching
Drawing on different readings of the Zacchaeus story, Augustine Tanner-Ihmn invites us to consider the post-colonial context of our preaching.
Lady Gaga and the Monstrous Bible
Stephen Roberts explores the theology of Lady Gaga, and what her music has to do with monstrosity and the Bible.
Suffering in Silence…?
1 Peter’s call to endure unjust suffering has often been misused to justify domestic (and other) abuse. Writing from different perspectives, Steve Carter and Steve Finamore challenge that use of the text.
‘On us and on our children’: Repenting of the harm caused by Matthew 27:25
Ann Conway-Jones invites us to reflect on how we respond to Matthew’s accusation of deicide against the Jews.
The Fall Revisited
The Old Testament reading on 26th February is the story of the Fall. Debbie Rooke invites us to revisit our assumptions about the story and what it says about responsibility.
The Lure of Violence
In this post guest blogger Christine Redwood uses Judges 3 as a way in to asking ourselves the question: Is Violence Ever OK?
Woe to the bloody city – Nahum 3
Sermon by Helen Paynter, based on Nahum 1:2-10,15, and 3:1-3, with attention also to Eph 2 11-22.
Book Review: The Things that Make for Peace
Carolyn Whitnall reviews Jesse P. Nickel, “The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence“, (Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703771 Jesse Nickel’s The Things that Make for Peace bears on a question of pressing and far-reaching concern:
Preaching Between the Wound and the Promise – Finding God in Texts of Terror
Guest Blog from Hannah Wilkinson considering how to preach both the wound and the promise when preaching with difficult texts.