Month: July 2008

Recent blog posts

• The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 3, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
  June 12, 2020
  In this 3-part series, I speak with my colleague Chris Thomson, lecturer in Old Testament at Moore College, who has engaged in detailed research in this area as well as scholarly
• The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 2, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
  June 5, 2020
  In this 3-part series, I speak with my colleague Chris Thomson, lecturer in Old Testament at Moore College, who has engaged in detailed research in this area as well as scholarly
• The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 1, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
  May 29, 2020
  Martin Luther famously wrote about justification by faith: “if this article stands, the church stands; if this article collapses, the church collapses” (Luther’s Works 40/3.352.3). Justification
• FBS Paper: “Every construction”? Ecclesiological Plurality in Ephesians 2:19–22
  May 27, 2020
  Here is the video recording of an academic paper I presented at the Sydney Meeting of the Fellowship for Biblical Studies, Online meeting, 22 May 2020.
• Jacob: Scoundrel, wrestler and ancestor of Christ, with Philip Kern @ Moore College
  May 22, 2020
  The figure of Jacob, in the pages of the Old Testament book of Genesis, is a fascinating character. The man who became known as “Israel” was in so many ways a scoundrel, yet he received God’s
• Is “Church Online” Church? (Lionel Windsor, Mikey Lynch, Andrew Heard)
  May 17, 2020
  In this discussion for the Reach Australia network‘s podcast, I join Mikey Lynch (leader of Tasmania’s Vision 100) and Andrew Heard (lead pastor of EV Church on the Central Coast of NSW)
• Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas
  May 14, 2020
  What does the Bible have to say to a world in crisis? In my latest Iso-Chat, I speak to my friend and colleague George Athas about the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is about a
• The “New Normal” and the Same Old Story: Evangelism in a Virtual World
  May 12, 2020
  There are amazing opportunities in online evangelism. And with the “new normal” under COVID-19, people really are listening.
• How did the Reformers respond to plagues? Learning from history with Mark Earngey @ Moore College
  May 8, 2020
  I have a chat to Mark Earngey, Head of the Church History Department and lecturer in Christian Thought at Moore College, about his public online lecture “Protestants and Plagues”. Video This
• “He is risen! He is not here”: Comfort and hope in absence, with Peter Orr @MooreCollege
  May 1, 2020
  The words of the angel on that first Easter Day, “He has risen! He is not here” (Mark 16:6) are full of comfort and hope. That is especially true as Christians celebrate Easter in 2020, under