The main problem is that Jehovah isn’t actually in the Bible. It is a mistake of translation that ended up being used in songs, translations of the Bible, and common parlance. Let’s see how it happened. How Was the Old Testament Written? To start with, we need to understand how the Jewish people wrote and…
There is a strong streak of Protestant distaste when it comes to questions of Mary the Mother of Jesus. The strength of the Marion cult which emerged in the 11th and 12th centuries, not incidentally when some of the first courtly romance ballads appeared, can be a problem for taking Mary’s role seriously. Too much…
“We three kings of orient are…” unless you were raised in East London like me in which case we sing “We three kings of ory n’ tar…” In Matthew’s version of the Nativity story, there are some characters who turn up who have captured Christian imagination over the years. This article is answering a simple…
During the Second World War, Salvationists in the military ended up in prisoner-of-war camps. This did not mean they ceased to be Salvationists. For many of them, this was to be the greatest test of their commitment to Salvationist principles. This is the story of one of those groups. The information is taken and adapted…
Spiritual Warfare is one of those topics that gets people either all hot and bothered or makes them scoff and turn their noses up. But I think the reality of spiritual warfare is not ghost-busting or fighting demons like a Marvel character. In this piece I’m going to try and give another dimension to what…
The better we know our history, the more we will find that history explains the present in a way which helps us make sense of our current experiences. My First Love My first love was history—dinosaurs, soldiers, and lost civilisations. I would read book after book about history, whether they were Horrible Histories or Penguin…
Why did Jesus get baptised? Was it to mark the start of his ministry? Was it because he needed his sins wiped away? Was it when Jesus became God? Was it a cultural thing? These are all answers that have been suggested for why Jesus got baptised. I don’t think they are all quite right….
This is the fourth and final part of a series on the inclusion debate. You could read this as a standalone, but it will make more sense if you read the other three first. I start this article by suggesting how the early Church approached their scripture reading and what that can mean for us…
This is the third part of a series looking at the basis for a theological understanding of inclusion. It draws from the stories of Acts 8-15 and puts them in a broader historical, biblical, and theological context. If you haven’t read part one on the Ethiopian eunuch or part two on the conversion of Cornelius…
This post follows from the article on the Ethiopian eunuch, so if you haven’t read that one, you might want to go back and read it first. https://mytheologycorner.com/2024/09/02/the-ethiopian-eunuch-the-radical-inclusivity-which-created-the-church/ Introduction – Why Cornelius’s Conversion Matters for Inclusion Cornelius’s conversion, the giving of the Holy Spirit to Gentiles, and Peter’s confronting of the change to dietary laws…