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Some issues for contemporary faith

Scripture and interpretation

Robinson Crusoe: A parable of modernity

A word in time

Robinson Crusoe and our yearning for innocence

The word that speaks today

Firewalls and faith

Scripture's past, present and future

Being here and not there

Time shuddderrrs

Reality, rhetoric and constructed faith

Alice and apocalypse

Is God in two minds about us?

Myth busting by apocalypse

Penguins, people and the word

... things into which angels long to look

Relativity, perspective and truth

Parables and the value of words

Human distinction within creation

Everything hinges on ears

"You certainly will not die"

Seeing otherwise than what is seen

What is freedom?

Advent and time between

At the centre of reality

Believing in God or hearing the word of God?

Reflections in a hall of mirrors

Has the word of God failed?

Hearing with the h(ear)t

The word that is near

Creation, idolatry and the gospel of God

Why Christian Scripture is Christian Scripture

Between relativity and absolutes

The voice of God and hearing ourselves speak

The "albatross syndrome"

Scripture: a phenomenon of excess

Believing in believing

Suspicious underwriting and Christian Scripture

Who is my "other"?

Was Jesus racist and sexist?

Wet fish, culture and shipwreck

Biblical banditry in our time
Cultural aspirations, myopia and theology God speaks today

Our first intelligence

Who can read Scripture?

Making a virtue of doubt

Quibbling over Scripture

Religion, reiteration and God with us

Sermon hyperbole

To hear is to see

Tone, image and rhythm in Scripture

Lord of the "between"

Intellingence of the heart

Prefacing the Lord's Prayer

A house of cards

The Lord's Prayer

An allegory of conflict?
Treasure that is no treasure Interpreting weather and being astonished
The world that is passing away

The hinge of Christian scripture

The good within hearing

Apocalyptic insomnia and parables

A tacit game of détente

Parables, the virtual and virtue

Specifically Christian spirituality

Apprehended by apocalypse!

"Love is God"

Epistemology, human dignity and freedom

Intelligence of gratitude

"Flat" characters beyond therapy

What does it mean to be modern?

Why Christians are not religious

Christian faith and religion

How enlightened is Christian faith?

Christ crucified and religious violence

Faith as the focus of faith

Faith that refuses to be relative

Crucial issues concerning Christian faith

Between, sacred, secular and gospel

Does faith destroy love?

Religion, humanity and Christian testimony

Baruch's segue

Is religion relevant to the gospel?

Faith with intelligent passion

Christian faith and religion

Enlightening character

"God loves everybody"

Suffering that diminishes suffering

Making a difference in the world

Religion, tribal identity and grace

A unique vocation in the world

Abraham and "three monotheist siblings"

Making a difference in the world

Religion, the gospel and humanity

Capillaries of grace and truth

God without gospel

Whose criteria for seeing the Lord?

The sibling of humanity

A reality surpassing calculation

Cynicism, alumni and attentiveness

Politics and the reign of God

God as otherwise and intimate in Christ

A kingdom not from this world

Groping after God

Prophets, grace and social transformation

Who wants religious relativity?

Flowers fall but the word endures

Pentecost: something new under the sun

Grace beyond binary enmity

Fastened down or called forward?

Christian testimony and the state of the state

The jigsaw puzzle of religion
Christian distinction without dualism Are religious people more ethical?

Nevertheless, we see profoundly

Christology

Christology without fig leaves

The testimony of Christian faith

Theism, theodicy and atheism

A twofold "Amen"

Theologia crucis

Parables and time as gift

Christianity with minimal Christology

Time and its punctuation

Jesus and Peter Pan

Time, perspective and judgment

Jesus without Christ

Beauty, creation, glory and grace

Christ without Jesus

God of the personal

The religion of Jesus

A word beyond our conjuring

Writing-up the "real Jesus"

Crucial hinges in Christian witness

Who do people say I am?

What is the purpose of Christian theology?

Parables and a strange paradox

Accents of faith

Theism, atheism and Christ

The good I would do, I do not do ...

An infamous double-bind

Parables between good and evil

Discontinuity that gives continuity

A justified existence

Re-crucifying Jesus

Pharisees were just like us

"I Am" and grace upon grace

"My rights" or God's grace?

The scandal of particularity

The freedom to be free

Jesus between Paul and Mark

The freedom to will what has been chosen

Starry heavens above and the moral law within

On whom God will have mercy

Time, death, incarnation and grace

God who calls to be things that are not

The Mandela option

The gospel of God

Christ and the crisis of time

Q & A in Romans

No other God is given

Faith as gift and response

Christ the word of life

Faith within the phenomenon of excess

Without a face for the face of God

Credit, credibility and gift

In the belly of a whale

The comedy of faith

Jesus displaced by a comma

Imagination

Redemption and "gap insurance"

Theology: testimony to Christ the wisdom of God

Is there a gift?

What are humans that you consider them?

Can any centre hold?

Reality is relational

Time relative to grace

Other articles

Tea leaves, time and Christian identity

Putting the world right

A story of joyous discontinuities

Fighting against the Spirit

Theology, the word and reality of God

"Deliver us from evil"

A (re)new(ed) reading of Christian faith

Choosing death or life

Reasons that reason does not know

The stone that causes stumbling

Christian faith in comic acts

Easter and remembrance of things called to be

In the wake of Acts

Evil and Easter

Shipwreck and debris in Christian identity

An economy otherwise than economy

Why the good news is good news

God, distinction and qualitative possibilities

How to make Christian faith superfluous

Shipwreck and harbour, church and empire

In the year of God's favour

The scene of testimony

The credibility of the incredible

Light beyond light

Christian faith with mongrel pedigree

Seeing the invisible

Seed and harvest

Churches of Christ identity

Moby Dick and nature's intent Anticipating Churches of Christ identity
Tabula rasa and palimpsest

What do we mean by Christian unity?

Disciples disciplined to righteousness

Churches of Christ: What is our future?

 

Haunted by statistics?

 

First words and a clear message

 

Distinctiveness and distinctions

 

Declaration and Address

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  The mask of hairesis
  Christians beyond tribal identity