Struggle, surprise and sainthood

Time rushes by so fast at this time of year, what with Christmas looming on the horizon, that it would be easy to overlook two strange yet significant days earlier this month (November 2007). For Christians in the Catholic tradition, especially (but not only, I shall...

Making Manga out of the Bible

As a New Testament scholar with diverse cultural interests, I try to follow the marketing of the Bible – and here’s an interesting example. Published by Tyndale in the UK in 2006, and in the US in September 2007, Manga Messiah heralds the Manga Bible,...

Mixing football and morals

“It wasn’t a sermon,” said Sepp Blatter with a rather grizzly gravitas: “it was a message.” This was gnomic stuff from the sun-tanned President of FIFA, the international governing body of football. I guessed it was a compliment because of the accompanying air of...