“Counting the cost of being counter-cultural”: an open letter to Naomi Osinnowo, editor of idea magazine

Hi Naomi, Congratulations on your work on idea magazine. It's always a great read :) I wanted to raise something with you as editor - as I guess you make the ultimate decisions on what gets included, and the overall direction of the magazine. I don't think I am able to do justice to what …

Learning from history (II)

So... if the Old Testament "historical" books are not "history", at least not in the way we would understand the term, what are they? How about this for a starting point: Theological treatises rooted in an understanding of the God who is at work in and through history The Old Testament historical books were written …

Learning from history (I)

Why is it that so much teaching seems to involve destruction before (re)building, the unlearning of wrong concepts in order to be able to see anew? This last week, whilst teaching at the Assemblies of God theological seminary in Cordova, Spain, on the historical books of the Old Testament, was no different. Hard work too, …