It is all too common for Christians to attempt to do justice to the scriptural narrative by listening to it, learning from it, and attempting to extract a way of viewing the world from it. But the narrative itself is asking us to approach it in a much more radical way. It is inviting us [...]
That was the question that Toby, my 4½ year old son, asked a few nights ago, as he was feeling a little off colour. Ah, I know the answer to that one, I thought.
"God doesn’t make you ill. In fact, God is very sad that people get ill." I said. I wish I had [...]