The long view

What with having several young children, I don't read as much as I would like in the summer holidays (what with having several young children, there are plenty of compensations!). This summer, I managed just one: a re-read of my first-year church history survey from my undergraduate days, Henry Chadwick's The Early Church. It's not…

An antidote

to church-growth trickery: But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who…