‘Churches preaching the Bible are the ones that thrive’
from The Christian Institute:
‘Settle’
Holloway, who led the Anglican church in Scotland in the 1980s, was reviewing a book on the history of the Bible by academic John Barton.
In it, Holloway himself acknowledged that growing churches are “usually those that take a conservative approach to the interpretation of the Bible”.
But he called for people to “settle for” a relaxed attitude towards their beliefs, concluding: “After all, which of us really knows what’s going on?”
See also: Stephen Noll’s Easter Octave – a series of reflections from the passion narratives: Palm Sunday here; Follow day by day here
Why the centre of Christianity is the cross, by Julian Mann, The Conservative Woman