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…
Content Warning: Discussions of Death, Dying, and Suicide This is, of course, a delicate and emotive subject. The question of Human Dignity and Euthanasia is an important one which must be discussed, but we also need to take care of our own well-being within that discussion. Please be aware of your own circumstances when reading…
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….
The Salvation Army is a holiness movement. It’s radical commitment to sanctification as the privilege of every believer has impacted it’s emphasis on the Priesthood of all Believers. Introduction and Context The Salvation Army has historically understood itself as a movement of saved and sanctified people committed to a world war against evil to usher…
The General of The Salvation Army, Lynden Buckingham, has called for a new global strategy. It’s intention is to mobilize the Army for mission through increasing its governance, improving it’s structures, freeing it’s recourses, and empowering it’s members. This is my reflection on it. Introduction At the moment, an overview page and a short video…
There are lessons to be learned for ministry, particularly church leadership, from military history. Here are seven lessons for ministry from military history highlighting key elements of church leadership and ministry more generally. 1 – Thermopylae and the 300: Not Everyone in Ministry is Remembered. Remembered in films and comic books, the final stand of…
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…
Content note: this essay discusses castration and the sexual exploitation of enslaved people in the ancient world, in historical and pastoral context. We take for granted that the church is a community whose membership is constituted by faith alone. We are used to it. But when the church first burst into the world, it introduced…