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I often disagree with Ben Witherington, but in a scathing review he rightly and convincingly blasts a particular sort of biblical reading that is far more widespread than it ought to be. The whole lengthy post is worth reading. I particularly enjoyed this comment about the sloppy assumption sometimes made about house churches and the [...]

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David has convinced Jim West (who he failed to tag) that he’s one hippopotamus short of a mud-bath with his latest meme. However, he has tagged me with it and here are the rules:
a. Tag five Biblical studies bloggers.
b. Invent fictional posts that they might have written over the last month.
c. Link to this post.
So [...]

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… don’t read this post on Gafcon.

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And the one I backed from the start. Well done Spain, and well done Torres. And what a nice treat that not only does the best team there win the tournament, but they do it in normal time with cracking football.

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The most acute observation I’ve seen so far on the GAFCON statement has come from a Baptist. Writing about the section on Scripture

The Bible is to be translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading.

he says

Note the omission of the word ‘interpreted’. By [...]

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Although he deals with “solution to plight” later in the series , (which I think is an important emphasis) I’d personally like to argue that this was not only derived from his commissioning experience, but an earlier and perhaps quite primitive mirror-version of his later theology underlies his persecution, and is not entirely unrelated either to the apostolic preaching, or the transmission of the Jesus tradition. … Paul knew the general story of Jesus; he knew Jesus had been viewed by Paul’s Pharisaic peers and the Jewish elders as a Law-breaker - “soft” on Sabbath and the purity regulations, to be sure - even finally condemned as “unrighteous” according to the highest Jewish court.

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Peter Kirk’s enthusiasm for the revivalist Todd Bentley seems to lead him into some strange places. Today he seems to report as fact that through th

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Since asking for submissions I have discovered that Tyler forgot he had asked me to do the July Carnival, and has lined up Jim Getz . … I think it highly likely it might have appeared by now had I been doing it, so colour me mildly pissed off all round.

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Many people have been following (especially with the help of Dave Walker) the slowly unfurling disaster of the destruction of the former SPCK Bookshop chain. (See an earlier post of mine here)
Here in Worcester things have now taken a tragic turn. The local branch manager Steve Jeynes has now been found dead, apparently by his [...]

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I have no intention of disputing the second amendment to the US constitution. If Americans wish overall to live in a society which encourages the possession of easy means of slaughtering one another to be seen as a citizen’s right, then they’re free to do so (or not to do so).
However to many of us [...]

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