Why justice without mercy fails

Each year, as College Chaplain at Worcester College at the University of Oxford, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright would meet first year undergraduates, welcoming them to the college and breaking the ice. Most were happy to meet him; but others said, โ€œYou wonโ€™t be seeing much of me; I donโ€™t believe in god.โ€ I …

The end of history

[This is a transcript of a sermon on Revelation 21:1-6  preached by Rod Benson at Lithgow, Australia, in May 2018] When the Apostle John recorded the fantastic visions we encounter in the Book of Revelation, I believe he fully intended the words and images to be understood by ordinary readers in his own time. There …