James McGrath has dared to take Mark Goodacre on over Q. First, he posted about why Q should be deduced from the overlap between Matthew and Mark. Mark Goodacre responded pointing out that one shouldn’t make too much of these differences.
We have an idea of the degree of verbatim agreement that they [Matt and Luke] [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
My first thoughts on the thirtieth of the articles were somewhat unhelpful: a) I couldn’t think what there was to say about it, since the point of its polemic is now history, and b) the pleasure at thinking there were [...]
One of our local heroes of faith is Worcestershire priest Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy, vicar of St Paul’s. An army chaplain in the First World War, the soldiers nick-named him Woodbine Willie for his practice of cheering soldiers with free cigarettes. Less known as a war poet than many others, his poems are nonetheless often more accessible, [...]
