Many thanks to Dr Tim Bulkeley who today wraps up his series based on his book,Ā Not Only A Father, looking at gendered language for God. For more on Timās background, seeĀ the first post. Theology is only real when we live it. So chapter 6 of Not Only a Father tries to suggest ways we can […]
A warm welcome back to Dr Tim Bulkeley who is posting this series based on his book,Ā Not Only A Father, looking at gendered language for God. For more on Timās background, seeĀ the first post. Speaking the unspeakable: mother-language before the reformation People I talk with about using motherly language and pictures to talk about God […]
Welcome back to our guest poster Dr Tim Bulkeley, and welcome, readers,Ā to perhapsĀ the most controversial bit of this series (see the debate on today’s subject in the comments on the previous post)! I’ve argued that we need to talk about God as motherly if we are to speak in pictures about God at all, and […]
A warm welcome back to Dr Tim Bulkeley who is posting this series based on his book, Not Only A Father, looking at gendered language for God. For more on Tim’s background, see the first post. In the previous post I started with an assumption: …[t]he One True God is beyond human understanding. God is […]
Introducing Dr Tim Bulkeley, who taught me everything I know about the Old Testament! Tim has been a social worker in Belfast during ‘The Troubles’, Father Christmas in a department store, pastor of a Baptist church, missionary in darkest Africa, refugee for a couple of days, Bible teacher in universities and seminaries in five countries […]
When I was little, my internal picture of God was nothing like the white-bearded-old-man clichĆ©s. I’d never had any exposure to that idea. If you’d asked my six-year-old self, I’d have said God looks rather like Sam the Eagle from the Muppets. Sort of stern. And definitely male. I could articulate from young adulthood that […]
I’m a veteran of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and every frilly-frock drama produced by the BBC since 1992. I know the lineage of the British monarchy better than I know my own family tree. I just got back in the land of Netflix after a week’s holiday where I didn’t open my laptop (!). I’m […]
A very warm welcome to Lindy Jacomb who is introducing us to her social media project to open our eyes to the many women in the Bible. Whether or not you’re a fan of the Bible, I think you’ll find this worth a read. Huldah. Salome. Junia. Our eyes slip past their names without registering […]
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You may have spotted Michael/SKATERAK’s comment on Tim’s first Not Only A Father post. It reads: This will definitely be an interesting series. Thanks for whetting my appetite already. Is there any chance you could throw in some advice on how to present God to children, as well? Just a little question, eh, Michael? I […]