While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer
Sermon preached at Moortown Baptist Church on 10th November 2024, Remembrance Sunday. The texts for the sermon are: 14 At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. 15 David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” 16 So…
Pages 344-362 of Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette. Regnum, 2024. Introducing Pace Pace (now called Ivison Trust) is a voluntary charity in the UK which supports parents whose children are sexually exploited or…
Reflections on Stepping out of the Traffick: Pausing for theological reflection on Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking, edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill Prevette, Regnum, 2024. Published on pp27-30. The varied chapters in this book share two key characteristics. First, they want sexual exploitation to end, the exploiters to be deterred and…
Edd Glenn Miles and Christa Foster Crawford with Bill PrevetteRegnum, 2024. I am so glad to see this book come out, after ten years’ teamwork.It is very sad, and a great challenge, that a book of this sort is necessary. The contents give some idea of what it offers: I am grateful to have had…
First published in 1989 in Theology in the City, ed. A.E. Harvey. , 32–46. You can read a 2024 introduction to this here. Faith in the City is a significant recent episode within the history of the Churches’ concerns about the ways in which people live in modern urban society and what cities make of human…
Sermon given to the University of Cambridge, Sunday 1 March 1987 at 11.15 a.m. You can read a 2024 introduction to this here. In its report, published fifteen months ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission called for action by Church and Nation to respond to Urban Priority Areas. We must let this call ring in…
Two old articles about the ‘city’ – On Finding Faith in the City (1987) and Images of the City and the Shaping of Humanity (1989) – are published again today on this blog. Why bring these two old articles about the ‘city’ out of the shadows just now? The Grenfell Enquiry, or rather the Disaster itself,…
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