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SPCK journal Theology free to view

until end of March at its new home with SAGE - that is the latest issue plus archives. See here. SAGE have also picked up the Princeton based journal Theology Today and will hopefully also give free trial when first issue (in new home) appears.

Milbank is giving the Stanton Lectures at Cambridge; Bruce McCormack has just finished giving the Croall lectures at Edinburgh (summaries can be found here and here); and Frances Young to give the Bampton lectures during this term at Oxford.

Maggi Dawn has a new book coming out soon on pilgrimage.

SCM press have a great sale on including good prices on Nate Kerr's Christ, History and Apocalyptic, various titles by Hauerwas, Gunton and Moltmann, and other stuff

and Sam Wells has several new books coming out this year in addition to the second edition of the Blackwell Companion to Christian ethics:

• Be Not Afraid (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2011)
• Esther: A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2011)
• Living Without Enemies (with Marcia Owen; Downers Grove: IVP, 2011)
• Episcopal Beliefs (Harrisburg, PA: Church Publishing Inc., 2012)

Church After Google

I was speaking with another minister today about social networking and remarked that I hoped it wouldn't be too long before we would begin to some theological reflection emerging. I have come home to find the latest edition of the Princeton Theological Review is on 'The Church After Google'. The essays are academic and some a little heavy going, but its good to see some engagement with the ways church, theology and faith are being reconstrued by the new online media.

I know of very little other engagement, save an article on theological blogging by Ben Myers in Cultural Encounters (which due to a error in its publication, can be downloaded for free here), a chapter on blogging by Justin Bailey in Everyday Theology (Brazos, 2007), a book by Dwight J. Friesen, Thy Kingdom Connected (Baker, 2009) and some bits on facebook in Kester Brewin's book Other (Hodder & Stoughton, 2010).

Hauerwas responds to Nate Kerr

Hauerwas' response to Nathan Kerr's criticisms in Christ, History And Apocalyptic (SCM, 2008) can be found in his contribution 'Beyond the Boundaries: The Church as Mission' in Viggo Mortensen and Andreas Osterund Nielsen (eds.), Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging Plurality (Eerdmans, 2010), which I found I was able to read via google books.

On another note, the ongoing, and seeming endless, battle between Paul Molnar and Bruce McCormack on how to read Barth, has a close encounter in Molnar's (article length) book review of Orthodox and Modern and McCormack's repsonse found in the April 2010 edition of Theology Today. This is the first time McCormack has directly responded to Molnar.

from 2010 to 2011

2010 saw

the arrival of Kirsten

the end of ministerial formation at Regent's

and the beginning of ministry in Southend

the completion of my MTh

the opportunity to listen to Richard Bauckham, Sam Wells, Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank and Luke Bretherton

enjoy watching Up, Inception, Rev, The Good Wife and Mad Men

enjoy reading all the Matthew Shardlake novels by  CJ Sansom (there's a new one out now); Hannah's Child by Stanley Hauerwas, The Witness of God by John Flett and Desiring the Kingdom by James K. A. Smith

2011 will see

hopefully the start of a PhD

a move from flat to house

a visit to the limestone pavement at Malham Cove (it featured in both HP7.1 and The Trip)

the publication of my MTh thesis on a Baptist theology of children

the chance to see The Social Network, Black Swan, the end of HP, the return of Rev and Mad Men

the chance to read The Future of Christian Theology by David Ford, the second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Steve Holmes on Baptist Theology, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

the return to more regular blogging