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St Mark’s Director Andrew Cameron muses about Hebrews, angels, the power and authority of Jesus, and how we aim to interrupt the drift from Him.

Two modest, theologically informed proposals that gesture towards a politics different to those currently causing so much discontent. Written by Doug Hynd. Doug Hynd is

St Mark’s lecturer Rev’d Dr Ockert Meyer gave the message at the Parliamentary Service on Tuesday 12 February. He spoke passionately and eloquently on the importance of civility in a free world, with reference to Psalm 119:73-80 and Mark 12:28-33.

“Everything we do at St Mark’s is ultimately about Christmas.” A year-end message from Deputy Director Jane Foulcher.

So I was teaching a class in ethics the other day … stay with me! Ethics sounds boring or scary, until you get into it and can’t stop.

Greetings from St Mark’s for 2018! I am looking forward to the year. We have every reason to think that St Mark’s is well-positioned again

The Society of Biblical Literature annually hosts a meeting where thousands of professors and students, authors and publishers, religious leaders and interested laypersons gather to

BY DR DAVID NEVILLE At the 2017 annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Boston, I presented a paper entitled “Like Lightning? Revisiting Luke 17:22–37 in Light of Recent

Luke has written with a kind of a slant on how life goes on, with all the usual swirl of human desires, and amid it, there are those who are held steady by the law and the prophets, by hope, and by that pivotal resurrection. 

Paul finds in the Greek city of Ephesus a spiritual contested space. It’s a spiritual free-for-all, and in this mess, talk about Christ sometimes works, sometimes fails. 

How this passage has a great moment for political theology, for the logic of evangelism, and for God and redemption. 

For the first time in the Gospel, here Jesus himself doesn’t appear in the foreground. The events certainly pivot on Jesus, who becomes like the mountain range behind the foreground scenes. But the main character becomes this blind man, in whom the works of God are revealed.