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“A privilege to disagree”

So far, it is Alister McGrath: 2, Michael Shermer: 1. That’s not actually a score, it’s my book tally as I prepare to moderate the September 15th “Is God a Figment of our Imagination?” debate at Convocation Hall. In the last month, I’ve read McGrath’s Inventing the Universe and The Passionate Intellect, and I just last night finished The Believing Brain by Shermer. Next on my list is Shermer’s The Moral Arc. And it’s a very big book.

Hurricane Harvey: A Christian Response

 

A Houston residential neighbourhood is under water following days of heavy rains during Hurricane Harvey.

 

By Ephraim Radner

 

We are all praying for the people of Houston and surrounding areas: for their protection and safety, and for courage and consolation after the tremendous loss to persons and property the waters have caused. We pray for the means to put their lives back together after the devastating floods that have yet to abate.

John Wycliffe: more than just a stained glass face

 

John Wycliffe, as seen in a stained glass portrait, which is featured as a part of one of the windows in Founders' Chapel at Wycliffe College. 

By Thomas Power

 

The man for whom Wycliffe College was named lived a relatively short life by today’s standards; he was about 64 when he died in 1384. Of course, people did tend to live shorter lives in the fourteenth century than they do today.

Luther's love-affair

Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and a licensed lay preacher in the Church of England. His books include Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World (2017), the prize-winning Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013) and The Sorcerer's Tale (2008). He is co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

By Alec Ryrie 

 

“I’m an ecumenist because I’m schismatic”

The Rev. Dr. Scott Sharman (left) is a graduate of Wycliffe College, a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, and professor of Church History at Newman Theological College. He has recently been appointed by the General Synod as Animator for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. He lives in Edmonton with his wife and two young children. He blogs for Wycliffe this week about why he chose to study here, and how his studies have helped to prepare him for this new role.

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