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The Master: The Life and Work of Edwrad Sugden , to which I contributed chapter 9, "Reading Wesley's Sermons in Edwardian Melbourn...

Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research 2nd Annual Conference Friday, August 20 -21, 2010 Salvation Army Training College 303 Royal Parade...

Here's how the draft of a worship text I am preparing for publication looks on an e-Reader. Courtesy of Steve Wright.

Joseph Coleson, ed. Be Holy: God’s Invitation to Understand, Declare, and Experience Holiness . Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House...

Craig L. Blomburg, Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners (Downers Grove: IVP, 2005). Notwithstanding its title, this book is ...

In his book, Holiness in the Gospels (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2005) Dr. Kent Brower makes an excellent contribution to the much nee...

Rudolph W. Heinze, Reform and Conflict: From the Medieval World to the Wars of Religion (Oxford: Monarch, 2006) is an excellent one volume i...

Arnold Toynbee once derided those historians who think that “history is just one damned thing after another.” They may have had Kidd’s book...

This book is the result of considerable consultation among scholars in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition operating first as the Wesleyan-Holin...

The African Queen (1951, dir. John Huston ) is what classic Hollywood is all about. Based on C.S. Forester’s novel of the same name, i...

Text: Luke 21:25-36 Today’s Gospel reading may seem an odd one for the first Sunday in Advent. Aren’t we supposed to have more positive an...

Robert Gribben, Uniting in Thanksgiving: The Great Prayers of Thanksgiving of the Uniting Church in Australia . Melbourne: Uniting Academic ...

This is one of the earliest of the revisionist accounts of the English Reformation . It helpfully states its central thesis in its second se...

I'm pleased to announce the publication, by Uniting Academic Press, of the result of a symposium at Queen's College last year on Ed...

Gordon Rupp, The Old Reformation and the New: The Cato Lecture for 1966 (London: Epworth, 1967) I love a book of good lectures now and then...

The Salvation Army's Pipeline magazine has a write up on Stuart Devenish and I in our roles at Booth College . You can read an online pd...

I was very glad to be able to offer a small amount of financial support for a delegation of Indigenous people from East Arnhem Land to trav...

This is a must read for clearing the air on the substance of Arminian theology. It is not Pelagianism ; it is not semi-Pelagianism (why do p...

New Testament theologian, Dr. Kent Brower of Nazarene Theological College, Manchester (pictured above), treated his audience to a preview ...

This is a meticulously researched and fascinating account of the origins of comics. It is part journalism, part social history, part biograp...