How can we talk about Israel & Gaza?
This is a really helpful discussion between Joseph Steinberg and Adrian Reynolds. Such a good, clear and useful view on how to think and pray carefully about Israel and Gaza in the church.
Six reasons why Christians behave badly
‘It’s not fun to be treated poorly by anyone, but why do people who are supposed to be loving, kind, and forgiving—yes, I’m referring to Christians—behave badly? Here are six reasons.’
Sharing the gospel with a Catholic friend: 3 wrong turns
Rich Baxter suggests three possible wrong turns we might make when sharing the gospel with Catholics and counsels us to do our best to avoid them.
The truth about camping
It’s great when you can heartily agree with people you often disagree with. Here is one such from Peter Hitchens.
Of Pilgrim’s Progress and honour killings
‘We cannot escape culture-specific applications in the resources we create. In fact, we must get specific for the sake of our audience. But we can try to write, record, or film in such a way that the biblical exposition and reasoning we employ might also apply to audiences on the other side of the world – or in some future century. You never know how a faithful book written in past centuries might be the key to unlocking the future church’s way forward in some seemingly unrelated controversy.’
Who sinned? Maybe no one: Mental health and broken embodiment
Remember the man born blind? Jesus’s disciples ask who sinned, the man or his parents. Jesus answered that nobody’s sin had caused the man’s blindness (John 9:1–4Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). It’s not a sin to be blind. Neither is it a sin to have a serotonin imbalance or misfiring brain wiring. In fact, it’s cruel to suggest such.
From the archive: Five ways to encourage genuinely co-equal plurality among elders
‘In this post I want to think about some of the ways we can effectively promote plural, co-equality amongst our elders. If we are going to use the title ‘pastor’, and we recognise the pastor is one of the elders, how do we make sure that we don’t communicate that the pastor is somehow greater than the other elders?’