Off to Belgium

I'm just about to head off for my first trip to Belgium at the historic University of Louvain. Bit scary since I don't speak any French apart from "toilet", "Gerard Depardieu", and "coup de grace". Although a German butcher once told me that I speak German with a dutch accent which might help at some strange point! So I'm off to hang with some Pauline gurus, exchange pleasantries with Mark Nanos over 1 Cor 9.20-23, and buy some Belgian chocolates which will hopefully make their way home for the rest of the family.

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the UK

The Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in Britain project is pleased to announce the dates for our first conference. The conference, entitled 'Exploring Expressions of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in Early Twentieth-Century Britain', will be held on the 8th and 9th of December 2008 at the University of Oxford. See the website for more info.

Contributors to the project are investigating the ways in which Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism have expressed themselves in the social and historical conditions of Britain and, in particular, the extent to which they have- and have been perceived to have - sanctioned prejudice rather than merely expressing strongly felt convictions.

The central question addressed explores the intersections of identity (who have been Evangelicals and Fundamentalists?), belief (what doctrines have they upheld?), values (what attitudes have they maintained?), emotion (have they displayed the anger often considered characteristic of Fundamentalists?) and practice (what behaviour in specific places have their views legitimated?).

Colossians Conference

Now I really do wish I was back in Australia because there is a conference on that I'd love to go to, the Colossae Conference on September 21-23, 2007 in Adelaide, Australia (the land of plenty and the city of churches). The keynote speakers include Paul Trebilco, Rosalinde Kearsley, Rick Strelan (my doktorvater). When they finally excavate Colossae, I'd love to be there!

HT: Alan Bandy