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What a wonderful week of blogging on Galatians!  Not everyone has agreed with one another as to the nature or significance of Paul’s letter – which is wonderful, as it helps us uncover the tension underlying the letter, and its promise. Some of our...

A Galatian Riot

‘Both read the Bible day and night,But thou read’st black where I read white.’ – William Blake ‘I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different...

Acting on Revelation

I’m no biblical scholar, and frankly, Paul intimidates me a little (so strident!), so my posts for this series will come, as usual, from my reaction to the text, not from any knowledge about the text. What strikes me about the first chapter of Galatians is how...

The Heartbeat of Galatians

With the first words of Paul’s letter to the Galatians we are transported into a world grace on the move. This grace is active and disruptive. It changed lives. It continues to change lives. Martin Luther, one of the great reformers of the Church in the 16th...

Where's Paul when we need him?

I don’t think I have ever seen such a time in my life where there are some many diverse interpretations of the Bible and Jesus’ sayings. We have fundamentalists, evangelicals, traditionalists, progressives, etc., etc. who all seem to think they have the...

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