Last night, my good friend Professor Steve Taylor, Chairman of EBC’s Board of Directors, featured in an ITN news report on work that he and his team at Liverpool University have been doing on dinosaur remains. Click on image to play video. On the significance of this research work, Steve says, ‘This is another example…
1516 HT: Dan Graves Erasmus never joined the Protestant movement, but many scholars would argue he set the stage for the Reformers. Erasmus loaded the cannon that Luther fired. The greatest scholar of his day, Erasmus rammed two shots into the barrel of the Reformation. The first shot was a satire titled, The Praise of Folly, which…
This is the second in my new series on issues related to pastoral theology which I introduced last week. There has been, in my experience, an unfortunate and undesirable shift in much of the Western church in my lifetime; a shift from emphasising character to focussing on competency. I think of the leadership group in…