5 books that changed who I am
Wendy tagged me in a meme about five books that changed who I am. The rules are: • Tag between 3 and 5 people • link back to this post. • call the post ‘5 books that changed who I am’
Walk On: Book Review
I’m mainly familiar with John Goldingay‘s work because he’s an Old Testament scholar but To The Usual Suspects, also published as Walk On, is a book of quite a different nature. More autobiographical, it’s a series of reflections on what it’s been like to live with his wife who was […]
Dying to sin: John Owen
John Owen was a 17th century Puritan. He wrote a whole treatise on The Mortification of Sin in Believers. He identified deceitfulness as the chief characteristic of sin such that you can think you have so understood grace that you tolerate and even love sin. Thus in order to mortify […]
Bear Hero and Palm Tree
Chatting with a friend from Syria this week, we got to comparing languages and translating each others’ names. Arthur loves the fact that his name means ‘Bear Hero’ but I’ve always thought that the meaning of my name ‘Palm Tree’ was a little bland, especially in comparison to my sisters […]
Dying to sin: whose work?
Last time we saw the commands in the Bible to die to/rid yourself of sin and live to righteousness/clothe yourself with godliness. So that sounds like those things are our job to do. Yet, the Bible also uses the passive to talk about this, the idea of us ‘being renewed’ […]
The acceleration of a love story
Here’s my theory about the acceleration of a love story in a TV series. Most narrative in our society is told through male eyes. (That’s not the theory part—that’s pretty well-attested.) But the speed with which the love story develops and the attention given to it are proportional to the […]
Dying to sin: biblical theology
The vocabulary of dying to sin is most explicit in 1 Peter 2:24: “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by His wounding you have been healed” but the idea pops up all over the […]
Meet Jesus at uni 