A brief note to remind readers of my paper on Luther and climate change in the Pacific, but with application elsewhere. Available here: ‘Climate Justice and God’s Justice in the Pacific: Climate Change Adaptation and Martin Luther’ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67602-5_6 Abstract Climate change activism […]
I have been selected to represent the PCANZ in the Council for World Mission programme “Face the Facts”, 2014 to be held in the Philippines. More information about the programme can be found here: Face the Facts 2014: Call for applications. To […]
There are two conferences coming up which look exciting: The 2008 Conference on the Bible and Justice http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bibs/bibleandjustice 29 May – 1 June, 2008 University of Sheffield The 2008 Conference on Bible and Justice will bring together scholars from around the world […]
Here are some articles I found useful in writing about Bakunin & Berdyeav. I wrote a paper called Slaver or Saviour?: Bakunin and Berdyaev on God and Freedom for my theology degree. The Socialist Tradition from Moses to Lenin by Alexander Gray […]
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I finished two short books in the last few days. Body Politics by John Howard Yoder is a brief, yet powerful study of five practices (he’d like to call them all sacraments) that the church has which have political import: baptism, Eucharist, […]
Today I discovered that the International Journal of Public Theology started publication earlier this year. The first issue is available online for free. The chair of the editorial board, and writer of the first article, is Rev Dr Will Storrar, formerly of […]
I’m on the Presbyterian Church’s environmental taskforce, which has the role to address environmental issues and how the Church can respond at both the Assembly and parish levels. To contribute to that end I’m reengaging with some eco-theological literature. First on the […]
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=r06c-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0310267307&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&npa=1&f=ifrI have just finished reading The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church. It was an easy read for non-fiction, but makes important theological points regarding the alignment of American Christianity and American society. […]
I missed the news in the venerable ODT, but caught up today through the Otago Bulletin that the University of Otago has succeeded in raising the money they need to establish a Chair and Centre for Theology and Public Issues Centre. The […]