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Ian Paul
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Theologican, biblical scholar, Church of England, gardener
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What language does Scripture use about the Holy Spirit? What does that tell us about the work of the Spirit and what we might experience? Does the Spirit do something distinct from the Father and the Son?
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How is the Holy Spirit described in Scripture? | Psephizo
It is quite common for people to make observations about the role or meaning of the Holy Spirit based on aspects of the language Scripture uses—including comments about the ‘gender’ role of the Spirit...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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How does the New Testament portray Romans officials, including centurions, and interactions with them? Is it historically accurate? And what does this tell us about the pressure on the early Jesus movement?
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History, Roman officials, and persecution in the New Testament | Psephizo
Stephen Webb writes: As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing challenges. And being a Roman military or civil leader con...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Where have we got to in the tortuous journey to a new Archbishop of Canterbury? What potholes lie ahead?
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Canterbury tales: what happens next? | Psephizo
Andrew Goddard writes: This week the number of confirmed members of the Canterbury Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) rose from 3 to 14 with only 3 names left to be determined and announced (those fro...
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May 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Gen Z looking for authenticity not ‘yada-yada’ talk of faith and spirituality, says Archbishop
Gen Z looking for authenticity not ‘yada-yada’ talk of faith and spirituality, says Archbishop
He was addressing the Church of Ireland’s General Synod, meeting in Naas, Co. Kildare
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May 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The surviving head of a bull from the mosaic in the frigidarium in the Roman Great Baths (2c AD) in Dion. From Hellenistic times onwards, Dion was the most important religious centre in Macedonia #mosaicmonday
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Why is Peter's retelling of the story about Cornelius in Acts 11 so pivotal in the narrative of Acts? What is the role of the Holy Spirit—and the importance of human response? Come and join the discussion!
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145 Peter's and Cornelius in Acts 11
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May 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Why is friendship so important and transformative of our lives? How did we lose it in our culture? And what can we do to restore healthy friendships?

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Why is friendship so important and transformative? | Psephizo
Earlier in the year, I was at a conference listening to John Wyatt, the well-known Christian medical ethicist. He spoke about the importance of friendship, and I bought and read his fascinating book T...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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In this Easter season, where do we find the cross of Jesus and the atonement in the Book of Revelation? How does it fit with the theology of the rest of the New Testament?
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Where is the cross and atonement found in the Book of Revelation? | Psephizo
Any discussion of ‘the cross’ in the Book of Revelation immediately faces a substantial challenge: in contrast with almost every other book in the New Testament, it is barely mentioned at all overtly....
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May 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Interesting sign of the Quiet Revival?
#CofE
Why I’m joining the Church of England
I blame The Spectator. The chain of events that has led me to be christened and confirmed in the Anglican Church began with an article I wrote for Spectator Life in January. I had spent New Year’s Eve...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Was Thomas 'doubting' or just normal? Wasn't he just asking for what the others had experience? What does that tell us about our own situation?
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What do we learn from so-called ‘doubting’ Thomas in John 20 | Psephizo
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for the Second Sunday in Easter is John 20.19–31, which includes Jesus' encounter with so-called 'doubting Thomas'. It is the set reading for this week in all thre...
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April 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Is there a 'Quiet Revival' happening in England and Wales? Is the Bible Society's research robust—and what encouragements and challenges does it present for churches and church leaders?
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The Quiet Revival interview with Dr Rhiannon McAleer
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April 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Are the gospel accounts of Holy Week contradictory or do they cohere? Does it matter? And what difference does it make when we read them together?

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Do the gospel accounts of Holy Week make sense? | Psephizo
Have you ever sat and read through the gospel accounts of Passion Week, and tried to work out chronologically what is happening? And have you done that with the four gospels? (It is easiest to do that...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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What are some of the serious problems and errors made in the case for reparations by the Church Commissioners? Is there a better way to approach these issues? @thesaxbys.org
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Should the Church Commissioners pay slavery reparations? Further questions | Psephizo
Project Spire is the name that has been given to the Church Commissioner's decision to put aside £100m of their investments to be directed to working with and for communities affected by historic tran...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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What are some of the serious problems and errors made in the case for reparations by the Church Commissioners? Is there a better way to approach these issues?
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Should the Church Commissioners pay slavery reparations? Further questions | Psephizo
Project Spire is the name that has been given to the Church Commissioner's decision to put aside £100m of their investments to be directed to working with and for communities affected by historic tran...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Deeply concerning issues with the process for appointing the new #Archbishop of #Canterbury
#CofE
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Christopher Landau was liberal on sexuality—until he visited a gay bar and talked to people about their lives. Does his proposal of 'compassionate orthodoxy' offer a way forward for the Church of England?
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Compassionate orthodoxy
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March 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Something appears to be going seriously wrong with a key part of the process to appoint the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What has gone wrong, and why, and what will be the impact? @thesaxbys.org
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What is going wrong with the Canterbury appointment process? | Psephizo
Andrew Goddard writes: Given the events in Canterbury diocese set out in my previous articles (here and here) I was expecting the result of the election of the Canterbury Vacancy in See Committee (ViS...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#cofe
March 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Did Jesus actually teach in Greek rather than Aramaic? What are the arguments, and what difference does it make to how we read the gospels? @joelbgreen.bsky.social
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Did Jesus teach in Greek? | Psephizo
The question of whether Jesus spoke and taught in Greek has, at times in the past, been a subject of serious debate. But for some reason this issue has disappeared from serious consideration, at just ...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Did Jesus actually teach in Greek rather than Aramaic? What are the arguments, and what difference does it make to how we read the gospels? @thesaxbys.org
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Did Jesus teach in Greek? | Psephizo
The question of whether Jesus spoke and taught in Greek has, at times in the past, been a subject of serious debate. But for some reason this issue has disappeared from serious consideration, at just ...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Is "diversity" valued in Scripture? Here's some reflections from Ian Paul @psephizo.bsky.social -- helpful compass points. (Spoiler alert: Yes!) #Diversity

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March 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The Church of England has talked about addressing issues around class. But what more needs to be done in terms of structures to change that? Could we see a working class Archbishop of Canterbury?
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The Hidden Limits of Class in the Church | Psephizo
John Smith writes: My wife sent me a text message a few months ago: ‘Could this be a possibility?’ Attached was an advertisement for a teaching post at a theological college. She thought that here was...
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March 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM