In a previous post I examined how Scripture is described in the doxology of Romans chapter 16, in relation to the sovereign plan of the...

A doctrine of Scripture that arises from the Bible's own teaching about itself can draw on a range of texts beyond the "obvious" ones...

I've nearly finished my second reading of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. I first read this mammoth work of fantasy...

Last week the world faced the grim statistic: novel coronavirus COVID-19 has now claimed more than 2 million lives. The inescapable...

Are Japanese people 'religious'? Almost 50% (49.4%, to be precise) of people in Japan say they have 'no religion' (無宗教). But this doesn't...

Since October, I've been taking a regular class in early Buddhism at the local culture centre here in Nagoya. I should say that "taking"...

I'm not much of a golfer. But as a native of Scotland, I consider myself something of a golfing purist. Golf should be played as it was...

I first moved to Japan from the UK nearly twenty years ago, as an Assistant English Teacher (AET) on the Japanese government's JET...

Are you ‘looking forward’ to Christmas? That question is not always an easy one to answer, even for Christians. For some of us, Christmas...

I'd better put this up front: I only have one wife. And I've only ever had one. We're very happily married. But a few years ago a...

If you read my previous post (Why you shouldn't come to Japan as a missionary), you might be wondering what's left to say on the...

This doesn't sound like the kind of blogpost a missionary in Japan should be writing. And I want to put a big caveat up front: God calls...

Systematic theology doesn't always get a great press. For some Christians I know, it sounds like a process of putting things in...