The Primitive Ranter
Friday, 5 March 2021
Review of ‘The Future of Brexit Britain
Monday, 14 December 2020
Just out another book review:
Friday, 4 December 2020
Trans-Atlantic Evangelicalism: Toxic, Fragmented or Redeemable? (2020)
- my paper just published today as a Temple Tract.
In the wake of the 2020 US presidential election, Greg Smith investigates the rapidly changing, and often fraught, nature of evangelical identity in both the US and the UK. Drawing on survey data from the Evangelical Alliance, Smith offers a nuanced picture of evangelical self-understanding in relation to British values, moral questions, contemporary politics and our current culture wars. What, asks Smith, is the future for evangelical identity on both sides of the Atlantic?
https://williamtemplefoundation.org.uk/temple-tracts/
also out today a review of Chris Wright's new book
review: https://williamtemplefoundation.org.uk/blog-review-here-are-your-gods/
Friday, 6 November 2020
My latest Book Review
Review of 'Race, Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England' by Shamim Miah, Pete Sanderson and Paul Thomas
6 Nov 2020 https://williamtemplefoundation.org.uk/blog-review-race-space-multiculturalism/
Friday, 4 September 2020
Review of ‘Christian hospitality and Muslim immigration in an age of fear’ by Matthew Kaemingk
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Just appeared: My 21st Century Evangelicals Research programme web page
I am the very model of a modern evangelical.
With Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan
I am the very model of a modern evangelical .
My beliefs and practices may look pretty fundamental
Our worship band is loud though their praise songs are unsingable
I love the word of God but my reading's just occasional
on a smartphone Bible app that my gran finds too technological
My sense of church belonging's increasingly ecumenical
I tend to charismatic and definitely not denominational
I like small groups and all things that simply are relational
My prayers are JUST – a tiny bit liturgical
Outreach to unbelievers is mostly ALPHAbetical
My doctrine of atonement is becoming controversial
and my social justice action's making me look rather radical
around food banks, refugees and the crisis environmental
though I don't need that with eschatology pre-millenial
but I often get confused now the world is multi-cultural
Our love's a hot potato when society's so sexual
though I hope Love wins and salvation's universal
though I fear that saying that will make me quite heretical
While the global church is growing at a speed that's just unmeasurable
and the minorities are bringing us fresh insights theological
while Americans are becoming idolatrously political
and embarrassing we Brits with their label "evangelical"
giving meanings to the E -word that sound like hypocritical
So maybe it is time to ditch the Bebbington quadrilateral
to seek to reinstate the GOOD news in our gospel.
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
New book review Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique
Message me if you want to read the review and have difficulty accessing it.