Releasing a Man from Violence 4: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
The keepers of the pigs are evangelists of a sort, who rush off from the scene of extraordinary happenings to…
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Releasing a Man from Violence 3: The Story of Legion 5:1-18
There’s a lot of begging going on in this story. The man begs Jesus (5:10); the spirits beg Jesus (5:12);…
Church Tradition as Spiritual Endowment
Many of us, in difficult times, find comfort in the familiar and the habitual. I was thinking about this recently…
Releasing a man from violence 2: the story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
There are a number of men in our group with experience of security and insight into military history, so this…
It is Good,(but there’s a serpent)
So there we were talking about the Hebrew word tov. It was me, and a bunch mostly comprised of teenagers…
Releasing a Man from Violence 1: The Story of Legion Mark 5:1-18
The morning’s bible study began over breakfast with the usual group and a familiar story, albeit one that took on some…
Passing Time in the Post Office Queue
Today I visited the Post Office at Ashbury. I arrived in the queue at exactly the same time as a…
Spiritual Formation and Immaturity: on the folly of biblical certainty
Gregory of Nyssa was a brilliant theologian, who among other things contributed to the development of the Nicene Creed. He…
Moses, Complementarianism in PCI and the Idolatry of Minimum Meaning
There is a curious incident on top of Sinai when Moses was receiving the stone tablets, which contained what we…
Lessons from Being Ill-Prepared: dog walking in the rain
My wife and I sat in the car and were torn, the rain wasn’t too bad, whilst up the hill…