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Some information about a new church work in Scotland is available here. The website also includes a recent video about the work which can be viewed here. 

Let’s be honest nobody but nobody likes criticism.  The words from a church member ‘I’d like to meet up with you to talk about something’ strike fear into every pastors heart.  Immediately you think (well I do) I’m in for…

12 years old and reading Barth!  Are you kidding me Liam?   I am certain that there is nothing to do in Scotland hence how you’ve produced so many preachers and theologians, kids go the library and say ‘have you got the…

I was encourged by Carlton’s report on the Westminster conference on Scripture (and only wish he’d reported Carl’s spicy comments). It made me reflect on my own expereince of the outworking of a deficient view of the Bible’s authority. The first…

I was in discussion with some ministers earlier this week and we were talking about how to teach the Bible’s story to our people. There was some debate about systematic theology versus biblical theology and which approach is best suited…

As the UK based bit of this blog Liam and I will try and do is give you some of the best things coming out in the UK and the many things you lot over there are inflicting on us.  Iain D…

Recently, I’ve been working at editing a forthcoming book from last year’s Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology.  The material is so good that I will be sharing some of it here over the next few weeks, hopefully whetting your appetite…

UK Gay Population lower than expected< > UK Koran Burning< > Red Sea parting – it could have happened< >

Last week we had an important visitor to my patch in west London. He was visiting the oldest Roman Catholic College in England just round the corner from Pope’s Grotto – a pub named after Alexander Pope but quite appropriate,…