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You feel for people who are doing it tough. I think particularly of refugees. And I’m not persuaded at all that using other names or terminology to describe them helps anyone since if someone claims refuge or sanctuary from us then that is how we are to respond while we ascertain identity and what to […]

I enjoyed visiting Wittenberg last weekend. (I didn’t like the freezing cold!) The place was pretty well deserted and all my previous years’ experience of dealing with crowds was given a refreshing rest. We could explore St Mary’s (the town church), the Melanchthon House, the Lutherhaus and walk around the town at our leisurely pace […]

The headline did its job. It got my attention. It was an article on the competing issues that surround val-ues and laws in a democracy. Religions have points of views and practices that go with them. For good order, all societies do. So what happens when there is a clash between religion and the laws […]

I picked up the latest edition of the New Testament in Greek this week. It is the Nestle-Aland 28th edition (and I immediately liked it … because it has bigger print than the 27th edition!). The 28th edition incorpo-rates the ongoing research and work that is happening in the world of the New Testament manuscripts. […]