Saw this & thought, 'the claims about the majority world church don't ring true,' but couldn't immediately think of evidence. 1/9

https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/1505867796500123648

Then I remembered the Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress in 2010. Anyone who was involved in global evangelicalism at the time knows the story well... 2/9

Someone just asked me about the greatest sermon I have ever heard. I’ve heard lots of good sermons, but I know which one was the greatest. It was about 25 years ago, in @SpurgeonCollege chapel. [1/12] +Lesslie Newbigin was the preacher, right towards the end of his life. Blind, so he couldn’t see us, and so bent that we almost couldn’t see him behind the pulpit. ‘When you go out into the ministry,’ he began, to a chapel-ful of ordinands, ‘what are you going to do?’ [2/12]

So, on the back of the previous post, what do I think about the filioque? 1/8 1. I think the fourth-century pro-Nicene trinitarian settlement, achieved by the Cappadocians and expounded most clearly by Augustine, did not definitively rule of the procession of the Spirit in either direction. 2/8

On the back of conversations about libraries and card catalogues, I remember being in--a residential library in Wales, let's say--maybe 20 years ago. I was there with a writing group, and wanted to check a patristic citation. 1/4 I looked at the card catalogue, and discovered they had Migne, both the PL and the PG. Easy. But where were they? I showed the card to the librarian on duty and asked. 2/4

Don't know why this crossed my timeline, but in they interests of things like truth and reality: Calvin never taught or defended limited atonement/particular redemption. Never. 1/12

https://twitter.com/bpickbpick/status/1306657835145592833

Some (e.g. Paul Helm) argue that it follows logically from things he did affirm, but there is not one single text in Calvin’s entire corpus that can be credibly read as an affirmation of the doctrine. 2/12

Concocting a pasta bake from leftover turkey I suddenly realise that my own weird culinary hill to die on is that white sauce, & all derivatives thereof, must be made from a roux. 1/4 I would never propose or defend the thesis that cornflour is of the evil one, but my kitchen practice appears to assume it... 2/4

So, we’ve just agreed we’ll be demonstrating against #prorogation on Saturday. It's years since H & I have been on a demonstration; our kids have never chosen to do it themselves (they were with us at Make Poverty History and others, but too young to be there by choice.) 1/10 We live in a parliamentary democracy; sovereignty in our system resides in the Queen in parliament. #proroguing parliament for a lengthy season at a critical juncture is an attempt to undermine the basis of our system of government. 2/10

Just saw a tweet castigating leaders who talk about ‘my people’. I get the criticism, and I assume it was well-directed, but I think the specific complaint is wrong. 1/6 If leaders talk about ‘my people’ the way managers talk about ‘my staff’, they have already failed, but there are different ways of using/hearing the phrase.
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We need to talk about ‘cultural Marxism’: Thread 1/13 Six months ago, I never saw the term in Christian discussion; now it seems to be common (I heard it three times in a day at a meeting recently). It refers to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, it seems always negatively. 2/13

Today I was at the launch of @sophianetwork’s #mindingthegap18 research (in the House of Lords, no less) and @Project328’s brand new database of women speakers. Both are potential game-changers. [1/n] #MindingTheGap18 reports the experiences of women in UK churches. There is hope, but also too much darkness. It comes with a manifesto, a call to do differently, which deserves to be widely heard. [2/n]

Very sad to hear this. Jens examined my PhD back in 1999. Our paths crossed fairly regularly afterwards.

https://twitter.com/wesleyhill/status/905267919315238914

He was a genuinely great theologian, always worth reading. Few writers are more consistently stimulating.