Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West Andrew Wilson Crossway, 2023 (ISBN: 9781433580536 hb, 360pp)   I hav...

I’ve been in my job serving three small rural churches for thirteen years. The population of the benefice is c. 1700. I can’t say revival ...

1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-9 (page 1145)   CALLED TO LIVE IN CORINTH AND IN CHRIST   Background: marclloyd.blogspot.com/2024/05/1-corinthia...

MESSY CHURCH: Christian community in a pagan culture between cross and resurrection Paul’s “First” Letter to the Corinthian Church – a les...

  As far as I can tell, prayers for the dead did not form part of the authorised public liturgy of The Church of England from 1552 until 191...

  Dr Thomas G. Weinandy (OFM Cap)’s book, Does God Suffer? (T & T Clark / University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) (Spoiler: no) is brilli...

  In my particular tribe of evangelicalism in my lifetime, there has been an enormous emphasis on The Quiet Time. That is, that each day one...

Of course it is Trinity Sunday any moment. And The Council of Nicaea has a bit anniversary coming up.  What reading might you suggest? Someo...

 Andrew Wilson discusses the difficulty of defining Romanticism and offers an eight word sketch: Inwardness Infinity  Imagination  Individua...

 My parish magazine item for June 2024 From The Rectory   Do you think about the past or the future much? There’s a lot to be said for l...

  Ascension 2024   Acts 1:1-11 (page 1092) Luke 24:44-end (page 1062)   This week for our school church assembly here, the topic w...

 We are perhaps familiar with thinking of the promises to the patriarch Abraham as: People - many descendants - a great nation  Place - the ...

In a really fascinating chapter (2, 'Quirks', p17ff) of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West (Crossway 2023...