Becoming Luther, part 2
BECOMING LUTHER (part 2): A Spiritual Diary The Break with Rome (1518-1525) February 28, 1518 – Wittenberg The 95 theses have spread across Germany like wildfire. I wrote them in […]
Becoming Luther, part 1
BECOMING LUTHER (part 1): A Spiritual Diary An imaginative reconstruction of Martin Luther’s inner life, drawn from his letters, Table Talk, and theological writings, woven with philosophical reflections on consciousness, […]
The “Biggar”Picture on Colonisation
Why Nearly Everything You Assume about Colonialism and Slavery is Wrong Nigel Biggar’s book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2021) is a much needed corrective to the lies and misinformation being […]
WESLEY’S HEART STRANGELY WARMED
I REMEMBER … John Wesley’s Happy Day JOHN Wesley was an Anglican clergyman who did his best to live an obedient life before God. He had an ardent faith, yet […]
THE GOSPEL COMING TO INDIA
MISSION WORK AT DEHRADUN Much to my surprise, coming from a family with no church connexion, my brother one day in December 2014 said to me, “David, did you know […]
TODAY’S QUICK WORD
Philippians 1:12-14 Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the […]
TODAY’S QUICK WORD
Psalm 119:63 I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts. The Hebrew root from which the word ‘friend’ comes means ‘to be UNITED’. […]
Book Review: The Story of the Church (A. M. Renwick)
London: IVP, Fourth Edition, 2020. The Preface to this fourth edition of The Story of the Church contains a short biography of A. M. Renwick, who wrote the first edition […]
Heroic Missionaries: How God Wrought Marvellous Works through John and Phyllis Mercer
John and Phyllis Mercer served with CMS in the remote mission station of Numbulwar, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, during the 1950s and ’60s. Both John and Phyllis were born […]
The Forgotten Reformer: Oecolampadius, A Light to the Church in Dark Times
The year was 1531. As autumn darkened into winter, prospects for the Reformation in Switzerland looked grim. Within a month, two of its leaders were dead: the rugged and charismatic […]