A book review on Gospel Trials In 1662 by Peter Adam Darling, you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go? If you say that you are mine I'll be here 'til the end of time So you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go? The subtitle of Peter Adam’s booklet, Gospel Trials in 1662: To stay or to go? reminded me of the old Clash song: Should I stay or should I go? Now I don’t think the Clash were thinking of evangelicals in the Church of England in the third decad

Confusion and conflict over church music continue to compromise the unity and witness of many churches today, so it is vital that our understanding of congregational life and our deployment of music and song within our gatherings be not only informed by our history but, above all, tested, refined and reshaped by Scripture. This, of course, is the reformed way – ecclesia reformata, ecclesia semper reformanda (“the reformed church is the church that is always reforming”). Bring

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This book persuaded me to re-read Matthew and to preach through it in one go. Listen to Him is a collection of papers delivered at the Annual Moore College School of Theology, and divides into two main parts. The first, theological, part whets the appetite to read and study Matthew’s Gospel. Bill Salier on the World in Matthew’s Gospel; Paul Williamson on Matthew’s use of the OT; Michael Stead on Matthew’s use of Zechariah; Ben Cooper on the curse-bearing death of the Messiah

A friend had highly recommended True Devotion to me last year, but it wasn’t until I began reading for an essay on my theological training programme that I actually read it. The essay was entitled “Discuss whether we should expect God to speak to us when we pray”, and Allan Chapple’s book was highly stimulating and profoundly helpful in helping me to answer this question. Allan Chapple writes in the introduction that True Devotion is a book about “how God’s Word shapes and ru

The Latin phrase lex orandi, lex credendi (‘the law of praying is the law of believing’) is a phrase which is often used in Anglican theological discussion, but which needs careful unpacking if its meaning is to be properly understood. In this study Martin Davie provides such unpacking. He traces the history of the phrase back to its origins in the work of St. Prosper of Aquitaine in the fifth century, explains what it means and gives examples of how it has been both used and

Most committed Anglicans are very familiar with some of the most important foundational documents of our communion. In particular, the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles are regularly used and called upon as our defining, historical standards. This is good and right, but if these are the only two documents brought into conversation, it is actually quite inadequate—especially when we are looking beyond today’s constitutional standards and back to the standards

It seems that wherever you go in the church of England these days, you are never far from something that is described as ‘Celtic,’ whether it is an approach to prayer, an approach to music, or even an approach to God. But what is Celtic spirituality? What makes something ‘Celtic’? and, most importantly of all, what is the value of it? Does it, as Marian Raikes asks in this booklet, provide ‘Light from dark Ages’? Having explored the reasons for the contemporary revival in int

Broughton Knox is probably not a household name among evangelical Anglicans today, yet the impact of his ministry, exercised in the second half of the twentieth century, is still being felt across the Anglican Communion and in other Christian churches. This is most especially the case in his native Sydney Diocese, but the influence of Knox is also apparent in other places. Knox’s long ministry at Moore College, including twenty-six years as its principal, was highly significa

When John Stott wrote in 2007 that “There is no biblical warrant for the so-called one-man band, in which a single pastor, like a single musician, plays all the instruments,” he was not presenting a new idea; both he and David Watson had been saying this for decades. Is there an authentically Anglican and evangelical remedy to the unbiblical pattern of a solo pastorate? Anglican evangelicals seem to be caught in a dilemma: on the one hand our biblical convictions persuade us