The latest installment in the New Covenant Commentary Series (NCCS) is on the Gospel of John by Jeyaseelan Kanagaraj (a.k.a. “Jey”). Jey J. Kanagaraj is a Professor of New Testament who served a number of years at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, N. India and who was the Principal of Bethel Bible Institute in Salem, S. India. He is now retired and has got invitation to go and teach in theological seminaries in Indonesia. Here’s the blurb:  In this commentary Kanagaraj examines... Read more

Since it is now Easter Sunday, I thought I’d rehearse one of my favourite Easter themes: justification by resurrection. One of my most treasured Pauline texts is Rom 4:25, “He was handed over for our sins and raised for our justification.” I’ve invested a lot time studying and meditating on this verse. I wrote my Honours Thesis on the theme of resurrection and justification (see my Saving Righteousness of God chap 3; and Daniel Kirk did his Ph.D thesis on the same... Read more

Great little cartoon on the Easter story from the Bible Society of Australia, great for children, just four minutes long, love the Narnia music too! Read more

I posted this a few years ago, but it is worth posting again because it is so cool! Αύτη ημέρα ην εποίησεν ο Κύριος, αγαλιασώμεθα και εφρανθώμεν εν αυτή. Χριστός Ανέστη εκ νεκρών θανάτω θάνατον πατήσας. Και τοις εν τοις μνήμασι ζωήν χαρισάμενος. Read more

This semester I’ve been teaching a course on The Doctrine of God and the Work of Christ, and we’ve had lectures on the death of Jesus in the last two weeks. During the lectures we’ve looked at the various modes or images of the atonement with a view to expositing the many things that the cross achieved. We’ve noted that Satisfaction, Exemplary, Penal Substitution, and Christus Victor images are not mutually exclusive. I’ve also argued, see here, that Christus Victor... Read more

Here’s a good video about the cross from Lifetone Media! Happy Good Friday!   Read more

Over at ABC  Religion and Ethics is an article assessing the prospects for Archbishop Justin Welby and what his ministry might do for the Anglican church in contrast to the former ministry of Rowan Williams and the concurrent ministry of Pope Francis I. Contributors include Andrew McGowan (no, not the Scottish one), Michael Jensen, Bruce Kaye, Elizabeth Oldfield, Muriel Porter, and Samuel Wells. According to McGowan: Pope Francis’s striking simplicity makes more of a contrast than was probably intended or... Read more

Over at THEAGE.TV is a British documentary by journalist Rod Liddel on The Trouble with Atheism, which is a great critique of the modern atheist movement with Richard Dawkins and co. I saw it several years ago, glad it is now available in Australia and perhaps elsewhere. Read more

Thanks to my good friend Cameron West, I’ve been reading through Belden C. Lane’s book Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality. The book deals with a neglected theme in Reformed spirituality, the awakening of a desire for a God of ravishing beauty mirrored so generously in the world of nature, a beauty that evokes a fervent desire for God. He writes: “The genius of the Reformed tradition, in fact, is its ability to combine these seemingly contradictory themes [awe... Read more

The Skit Guys do a funny Palm Sunday video: Read more