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Alex is a college athlete. As a young man, brimming with overconfidence, he decides to trek up a treacherous mountain. He has more arrogance than supplies. When he gets halfway up the mountain reality punches him in the throat. He doesn’t have the enduran...

Ezekiel didn’t know where he fitted on earth until he saw the wheels within wheels in the heavens.

Relationships define reality for us. Everything is interrelated. The interconnectivity of all things, physical and spiritual, are held together by relationships. So much so, that I believe in and started to develop a relational hermeneutic of Scripture that can better help us understand the purposes of God in the world today.

Relationships define reality for us. Everything is interrelated. The interconnectivity of all things, physical and spiritual, are held together by relationships. So much so, that I believe in and started to develop a relational hermeneutic of Scripture that can better help us understand the purposes of God in the world today.

Why was Jeremiah dropped in a cistern and left there to die? What had he done?

What did Jeremiah see when he visited the potter’s house? Is his picture consistent with the metaphor of God as ‘potter’ in the New Testament (Romans 9:21)?

THE GREAT STORY AND THE GREAT COMMISSION: Participating in the Biblical drama of mission By Christopher J. H. Wright Baker Academic. 156 pages, £19.99 ISBN 978 1 540 966 162 The author, the globally well-regarded author and speaker, and accomplished Bible-scholar, Christopher Wright, aims in this new book to place ...

“By thoughtfully, carefully, and yet boldly applying technology to ourselves, we can become something no longer accurately described as human — we can become posthuman … Posthuman beings would no longer suffer from disease, aging, and inevitable death (but they are likely to face other challenges).”

It’s a tough read. At first glance it feels a bit like going on a long car ride with a Debbie downer. Page after page is filled with expressions of deep pain. At first glance a lament feels out of place in the context of good news. But as we dig deeper, w...

There isn’t much in Genesis that points us to the eternity that awaits us. But again, there are little glimpses, like Jacob’s ladder. There is hope even in Joseph’s death and burial in Egypt that the story isn’t finished. But as the book of Genesis closes...