Kristin Kobes Du Mez. A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism. NY: OUP, 2015. I’ve just begun a sabbatical to get some writing done and the main thing I’ll be working on is a book for IVP Academic on what the Bible says about women. On this topic, I’ve […]
About Lucy Peppiatt
The Power to Become a Child
I found it hard to decide which bit or bits of the Bible I wanted to read after my father died. I so often read Psalms when I’m emotionally stressed, or tired, or fed up, but I didn’t feel like this was a Psalm time. We’d read lots of psalms while he was dying and […]
On God’s Mother
*This is an updated re-post from December 2015.* When one of my boys was little he announced, ‘I know why God was mean in the Old Testament and nice in the New Testament.’ ‘Why’s that?’ I asked. ‘Because in the Old Testament, he didn’t have a mummy.’ Interesting thought… Putting aside the problematic OT/NT distinctions, […]
“Die Before You Die”: C.S. Lewis and Cruciformity
A great post here by Brenton Dickieson, our guest blogger for July. Die Before you Die: C.S. Lewis and Cruciformity I suspect that most of us have had one of those experiences where we hear a startlingly new idea, and yet it does not feel new to us. Instead, it is more like we are […]
Charismania & Discipleship: Or Why I’m Still a Charismatic…
Charismania and Discipleship Why I’m still a Charismatic… The Experience of the Charismatic Church It seems strange to post something that isn’t to do with Brexit, as that and the awfulness of the fall out has been uppermost on my mind since it happened, but I wrote this a while before the 23rd, and decided […]