Here’s what’s happening at KLC.
In 2016 Craig Bartholomew and Heath Thomas, released A Manifesto for Theological Interpretation as an initiative of the KLC Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. Baker Academic has given us permission to make the introductory manifesto available on our website.
Our second issue of TBP is an exploration of all the multifaceted areas in life where Christ is present and at play. Contributions cover everything from mathematics and faith, art, poetry, the spiritual significance of rabbits, to why Herman Bavinck is an essential read for today, and John Stott’s approach to political theology
During the long months of the initial lockdown in 2020 in the U.K., I spent time making these notes of the life in my garden. There is a good reason why Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne remains a classic. It has been described as the journal of Adam in paradise. White, a clergyman, was wonderfully attentive to the small locale of Selborne and his journaling is full of detail about what he discovered. For example he says of
Without reducing the wonder, depth and message of Scripture, 30-Minute Bible helps the reader get a sense of the big picture story the Bible is telling through thirty short readings, each designed to take about half an hour.
With the launch of our new website it is a joy to begin writing for the Director and Friends blog.
KLC embodies community, and I will be inviting friends to join me in this enterprise.
At KLC we resonate with Gerard Manley Hopkins’ famous saying, Christ plays in ten thousand places, and as such we are convinced that Public Theology is of little use if it does not enter into that play in every area of life. The Big Picture is our publication in which as a community we give expression to our celebration of life lived before God’s face and in his world.
