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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

A Pastoral response to ‘the homosexual question’ (two responses)

Soundings No. 46 – 5 February 2006 A pastoral response to ‘the homosexual question’ by Brian McLaren Most of the emerging leaders I know share my agony over this question. We fear that the whole issue has been manipulated far more than we realize by political parties seeking to shave percentage points off their opponent’s […]

History and the Empty Tomb (N T Wright)

[209] Resurrecting Old Arguments: Responding to Four Essays (Originally published in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2005, 3.2, 187–209. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N.T. Wright Bishop of Durham Durham, UK ABSTRACT The author is grateful for the attention given to his book […]

Emerging Church

Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church INTRODUCTION Thesis The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, I will raise three areas of concern Evangelicals should focus most of their attention as they assess both the Emerging Church movement (hereafter ECM) and Emergent Village (hereafter EV). Specifically, I will point to some examples of what three […]

God, Time and Eternity

God, Time and Eternity William Lane Craig ——————————————————————————– William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children Charity and John. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first […]

N. T. Wright’s Hermeneutic: An Exploration

by Robert Stewart N. T. Wright is one of the more significant biblical scholars in present-day Protestant theology.1 The first two volumes of his proposed six-volume New Testament theology series,2 Christian Origins and the Question of God have been widely read and very influential. Richard Hays writes concerning the series: The sweep of Wright’s project […]

The Gospel and Meal Jesus Gave Us (N T Wright)

N. T. Wright on the Gospel and Meal Jesus Gave Us What can people inside and outside your church learn about the gospel from the way you preach and practice the Lord’s Supper? Bishop Tom Wright wrote Simply Christian and a book on communion to explain why Christ’s resurrection is good news for the whole […]

God

`God, we know you are in charge, but why don’t you make it slightly more obvious?’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1990

Conservatives and Liberals

A netfriend wrote: We are losing our love of history, literature and art, and if you don’t know these, then much of our Christian tradition is meaningless. So much for our education system. I replied: The fundamentalist/conservative wing of the church doesn’t need these elements of tradition. Their orientation is forward-looking, driven in my view […]

Evangelicals and Love

From a friend: A Great Denial. As Christians who are Evangelicals (whether Arminian or Calvinist) it matters little which brand, it is important to recognise we have become masters of words ~ you could even say we have become ‘logo-centric’ (a word for all those wordy types). I must confess right off the bat here […]

Jesus Ist Herr

Jesus ist HERR – ein Aufruf zu radikaler J ¼ngerschaft von Rowland Croucher Schriftlesung: Philipper 2,9-11: „Darum hat ihn auch Gott erh ¶ht und hat ihm den Namen gegeben, der  ¼ber alle Namen ist, dass in dem Namen Jesu sich beugen sollen aller derer Knie, die im Himmel und auf Erden und unter der Erde sind, und […]