Dr Sarah Golsby-Smith takes us on a journey to discover the riches of reading the Bible using the toolkits and methods of literary analysis.  She argues that Christians tend to read the Bible as an instruction manual - not literature - and this narrows its richness and indeed our view of God.  Instead she opens up the more living and vast world of reading the Bible  literature. 

The Bible As Literature

South London producer Paul White and Florida vocalist/rapper Eric Biddines have joined forces to form new duo Golden Rules. Their debut album of soulful, psychedelic hiphop is titled "Golden Ticket" and features Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def).

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Ron gives us a crash course in Quantum Theory and explains why it has profound implications for our understanding of reality and Creation's everlasting significance. As the father of Quantum Theory, Niels Bohr, famously stated: “Anyone who is not shocked by Quantum Theory has not understood it.” 

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How to Design an Eternal Universe—Quantum Theory Implications

Sarah’s talk is a celebration of the glory in the mundane. That is the theme of the two wondrous Gwen Harwood poems that Sarah takes us through. But this leads naturally onto a view of the incarnation—the ultimate revealing of glory in the mundane. And Gwen Harwood pursued this glory in the mundane as a woman and mother—which leads her (and Sarah) to advocate a distinctly feminine view of incarnation and Christ. A view that Sarah brilliantly touches on in Luke’s gospel where the gentle domestic view of the women—and the mothers—seems a deliberate counterpoint to the chest-beating imperialism of the male disciples. This gorgeous talk is a work of art and will reward repeated listening.

This is the first talk in our Great Poets on the Mystery of Faith series.

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Why Poetry Is A Way Of Knowing God—Gwen Harwood's Poetry

Universal salvation raises the critically important question of how we read the Bible—or ‘hermeneutics’. That is what Robin covers in this talk. He sweeps us through a big landscape in three succinct waves—each bigger than the one before. Firstly he confronts the foreground question of biblical texts—and he makes the point that everybody has problems here. How do we reconcile God’s love with his omnipotence? He then moves onto slightly broader terrain—we need the read texts in their context BUT the meaning of the texts will often be bigger than even the author intended or realised. And finally, he finishes with a new horizon of interpretation—the future. He talks about the ‘trajectories’ of the biblical canon, which stretch beyond themselves for future generations—like ours—to articulate. He uses the development of the doctrine of the Trinity as an example. So this talk is as much about how we read the Bible as how we do or don’t find ‘universal salvation’ in the Bible.

This is the second talk from our Hope and Hell conference.

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Hermeneutics and Hell: Biblical Interpretation and Universal Salvation—Robin Parry

Essentially we want to take God out of the religious box and position Him as Lord of Creation—that means recovering a much bigger picture of God and His project.

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