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This article responds to a challenge to examine my own position as a White theologian, firstly by waking up to its reality, and then by asking what comes afterwards. Two themes are examined: the role and the priority of experience in how we 'do' theology; and more broadly, how theological knowledge is constructed. From the elevation of my 'White Highlands', I ponder a suitable response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article juxtaposes the ministerial experiences of two individuals via short autobiographies around the theme of priesthood today. The authors examine contemporary cultural tropes from a theological and sociological perspective, concluding that there are learning possibilities in the role of shaman, and, very cautiously, in that of witch doctor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the Regional Shared Conversations in the Church of England concerning scripture, mission, and human sexuality. Topics covered include the participation of lay and ordained, men and women, gay and straight in thirteen Conversations across England, the main resources provided to participants in advance: "Grace and Disagreement: Thinking through the process" and "Grace and Disagreement: A Reader," and the author's experience of attending one of these Conversations.

Readings from the Road, a British Academy-funded small research project, investigated the use of Contextual Bible Study (CBS) with a group of homeless and vulnerably-housed people at a soup kitchen in South-West England. The transient nature of the homeless community presented particular challenges in using this method, but the non-directive and democratic nature of CBS proved valuable. The authors discuss three themes arising from the study sessions: home and place, judgment and stigmatization, and the figure of Jesus. Participants’ linking of biblical themes with their own experiences and broader social events are explored. The authors note that consciously privileging the experience and knowledge of those whose narratives or reading sites are silenced or devalued by mainstream religious traditions is not unequivocally positive, but that the homeless participants’ liminal, insider-outsider relationship to the rest of society is a significant factor in their ability to query and subvert established discourses, providing flashes of imagery which might be deemed prophetic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on several biblical texts as worship resources for January 29, 2016, dealing with topics including Epiphany, the events encompassing Epiphany, and the Beatitudes.

The article focuses on the Cheerio challenge based on stacking of breakfast cereals Cheerios by fathers on their babies when they are asleep. Topics discussed include idea of the Cheerio challenge from Life Of Dad social network; the Cheerio challenge as means of evaluating the parenting by fathers; and relation development between father and child via the challenge.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by contemporary Christianity. Topics discussed include 'Funding our imagination', a phrase used by Walter Brueggemann which means seeking out those opportunities where our limitations can be expanded, risk of anachronism, and the pastoral care of the dying described in the book of Sheila Cassidy, "Sharing the Darkness".