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Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today—don’t miss this conference at St Mary’s!

8 September 2015 by Steve Walton
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I’m very excited to announce the conference on ‘Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today’ at St Mary’s University, Twickenham (London) on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December 2015. The conference is being jointly sponsored by the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St Mary’s University, Tearfund and Caritas (Diocese of Westminster). Details and a link to the registration page are here, and you can download the pdf poster from here. The conference is aimed at church leaders, those working in Continue reading →

Congratulations, Andrew Lincoln, on your Festschrift!

7 September 2015 by Steve Walton
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Warm congratulations to Professor Andrew Lincoln on the presentation of his Festschrift at the British New Testament Conference in Edinburgh last week. It was a great delight to be present for the occasion, when Dr Lloyd Pietersen, one of the editors, presented the volume to him (see above). Conception, Reception, and the Spirit: Essays in Honor of Andrew T. Lincoln Edited by J. Gordon McConville and Lloyd K. Pietersen Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015 And here’s the Contents list—this is (as Andrew remarked) a stellar collection of Continue reading →

Adelaide College of Divinity/Flinders University slides

27 August 2015 by Steve Walton
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Here are the Keynote slides from my Adelaide College of Divinity and Flinders University Annual Public Lecture yesterday evening in Adelaide on ‘Leadership, lifestyle and the book of Acts’. I’m very grateful to the faculty and staff of ACD, especially Dr Vicky Balabanski, for their  kind invitation and hospitality. I aim here to look at what leadership looks like in Acts, arguing that the primary leadership to attend to is divine—God drives the mission and growth of the believing community in Acts, regularly in spite of human leadership, and frequently against the opposition of some Continue reading →

Review: Con Campbell’s Advances in the Study of Greek

26 August 2015 by Steve Walton
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        Constantine R. Campbell, Advances in the Study of Greek Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. ISBN 978-0-310-51595-1. $34.99; £18.99 [paper] or £12.99 [Kindle] on amazon.co.uk This is a belter of a book! In it Con Campbell manages to review and summarise huge amounts of recent scholarship in a form which will be accessible to those with some Greek. He thereby enables such people to benefit from the real advances there have been in our understanding of Greek in the last years. He opens by laying out Continue reading →

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