Although life has been hard going the last few years – well actually, because life has been hard going the last few years – I’m no longer so black and white in the way I see many things. I used to think the alternative to black and white was an unattractive gradient of grey. But…
While reading Miroslav Volf’s commentary* on 1 Peter I was struck by his thoughts on how the church establishes its identity in the world. By describing Christians as aliens and strangers in the world, Peter establishes a clear difference between the church and the culture that surrounds it. Volf asserts that, to Peter at least,…
