Inhabiting a Strange New World
How might we make use of spiritual exegesis and the “fourfold sense” in our proclamation of the Bible’s strange new world?
Interpreting a Strange New World
Rather than acting as a signpost to the strange new world of Scripture, the sermon all-too-often obstructs our view of the Bible’s terrain. We have lost sight of the strange; our pews remain fixed in the familiar.
Keep Christianity Weird
Love Makes No Sense is in many ways a panegyric to the oddity of Christian faith and practice.
Proclaiming a Strange New World
Barth asked: What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?
Use, Enjoyment, and the Order of Things
The recognition that God is the supreme object of our enjoyment fills us with wonder at creation’s transparency to the love and goodness of God.
An apology for theology
God is not to be used; God alone is to be enjoyed. Theology is the stubborn pursuit of this enjoyment.
8 meditations on Lent
Lent is a voice crying in the wilderness, a finger stabbing in the direction of Golgotha.
Putting the Incarnation back in ‘incarnational’
The Incarnation is not a principle. It is not just a reminder that God works and speaks through people. It is not primarily a model for ministry.