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  • 1 May 2012
    Approaching the Bible with an open heart

    The Voice, a new translation of the Bible, has sparked an impassioned but not always very well-informed debate about the nature of the text, observes Savi Hensman. But skilful understanding and interpretation invite open-heartedness, not close-mindedness, she suggests.

  • 5 Jan 2012
    Occupy and reading the Bible after Christendom

    "What would Jesus do?” Questions being asked by the Occupy movement are a symptom of an even wider movement to read the Bible in news ways, as the alliance of church and state breaks up, says New Testament specialist Lloyd Pietersen. He suggest three interpretative moves that have to be made to re-connection with biblical texts today.

  • 25 Oct 2010
    Thinking theologically: Bible, tradition, reason and experience
  • 4 Jun 2007
    Father knows best?

    One of the many important life-issues raised by traditional Christian language about God is that of gender and paternity - human and divine.

  • 18 Apr 2007
    How these Christians hate one another

    Simon Barrow asks how we can regain and sense of proportion, love and justice in arguments about the Bible and many other things in church and public life.