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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

A tacit game of détente

Christian faith and religion

Specifically Christian spirituality

Christ crucified and religious violence

"Love is God"

Faith that refuses to be relative

Intelligence of gratitude

Between, sacred, secular and gospel

What does it mean to be modern?

Religion, humanity and Christian testimony

Why Christians are not religious

Is religion relevant to the gospel?

How enlightened is Christian faith?

Christian faith and religion

Faith as the focus of faith

"God loves everybody"

Crucial issues concerning Christian faith

Suffering that diminishes suffering

Does faith destroy love?

Religion, tribal identity and grace

Baruch's segue

Abraham and "three monotheist siblings"

Faith with intelligent passion

Religion, the gospel and humanity

Enlightening character

God without gospel

The sibling of humanity

Making a difference in the world

Cynicism, alumni and attentiveness

A unique vocation in the world

God as otherwise and intimate in Christ

Making a difference in the world

Groping after God

Capillaries of grace and truth

Who wants religious relativity?

Whose criteria for seeing the Lord?

Pentecost: something new under the sun

A reality surpassing calculation

Fastened down or called forward?

Politics and the reign of God

The jigsaw puzzle of religion

A kingdom not from this world

Are religious people more ethical?

Prophets, grace and social transformation

Nevertheless, we see profoundly

Flowers fall but the word endures

Grace beyond binary enmity

The testimony of Christian faith

Christian testimony and the state of the state

A twofold "Amen"

Christian distinction without dualism

Parables and time as gift

Time and its punctuation

Christology

Time, perspective and judgment

Christology without fig leaves

Beauty, creation, glory and grace

Theism, theodicy and atheism

God of the personal

Theologia crucis

A word beyond our conjuring

Christianity with minimal Christology

Crucial hinges in Christian witness

Jesus and Peter Pan

What is the purpose of Christian theology?

Jesus without Christ

Accents of faith

Christ without Jesus

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

The religion of Jesus

Parables between good and evil

Writing-up the "real Jesus"

A justified existence

Who do people say I am?

Pharisees were just like us

Parables and a strange paradox

"My rights" or God's grace?

Theism, atheism and Christ

The freedom to be free

An infamous double-bind

The freedom to will what has been chosen

Discontinuity that gives continuity

On whom God will have mercy

Re-crucifying Jesus

God who calls to be things that are not

"I Am" and grace upon grace

The gospel of God

The scandal of particularity

Q & A in Romans

Jesus between Paul and Mark

Faith as gift and response

Starry heavens above and the moral law within

Faith within the phenomenon of excess

Time, death, incarnation and grace

Credit, credibility and gift

The Mandela option

The comedy of faith

Christ and the crisis of time

Imagination

No other God is given

Theology: testimony to Christ the wisdom of God

Christ the word of life

What are humans that you consider them?

Without a face for the face of God

Reality is relational

In the belly of a whale Time relative to grace
Jesus displaced by a comma Tea leaves, time and Christian identity

Redemption and "gap insurance"

A story of joyous discontinuities

Is there a gift?

Theology, the word and reality of God

Can any centre hold?

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

Reasons that reason does not know

Other articles

Christian faith in comic acts

Putting the world right

In the wake of Acts

Fighting against the Spirit

Shipwreck and debris in Christian identity

"Deliver us from evil"

Why the good news is good news

Choosing death or life

How to make Christian faith superfluous

The stone that causes stumbling

In the year of God's favour

Easter and remembrance of things called to be

The credibility of the incredible

Evil and Easter

Christian faith with mongrel pedigree

An economy otherwise than economy

God, distinction and qualitative possibilities

Churches of Christ identity

Shipwreck and harbour, church and empire

Anticipating Churches of Christ identity

The scene of testimony

What do we mean by Christian unity?

Light beyond light

Churches of Christ: What is our future?

Seeing the invisible

Haunted by statistics?

Seed and harvest

First words and a clear message

Moby Dick and nature's intent

Distinctiveness and distinctions

Tabula rasa and palimpsest

Declaration and Address

Disciples disciplined to righteousness The communion of saints
The mask of hairesis
Christians beyond tribal identity