What Is Marriage For?: Tracing God’s Plan from Genesis to Revelation (NT Wright, 2015)
“The biblical view of marriage is part of the larger whole of new creation, and it symbolizes and points to that divine plan….Marriage is a sign of all things in heaven and on earth coming together in Christ. That’s why it is a tough calling. But that is why, also, it is central and non-negotiable. That, for me, is what it’s all about”.
The Church & Transgender Identity: Some Cautions, Some Possibilities (Luke T. Johnson, 2017)
Roman Catholic New Testament theologian, Luke Timothy Johnson, explores some possibilities for a more positive Christian response to transgender identity and politics (scroll down to find article).
The Church & Transgender Identity: Some Cautions, Some Possibilities (Cloutier, 2017)
Roman Catholic moral theologian, David Cloutier, raises some cautions about transgender identity and politics
Into the Far Country: The Betrayal of Joseph and the Trial of Jesus (O’Donovan, 2017)
A Holy Week exploration of Jesus’ “journey into a far country” by reading it alongside the story of Joseph’s search for his brothers.
Resurrection and the Senses: In Defence of Thomas (O’Donovan, 2016)
The upper room is the scene where faith is given, and as such is as important to God’s victory as the empty tomb. It would not have been enough that the resurrection should simply have happened; that could have had no more meaning than the birth and death of galaxies. It was an event with meaning, a communicative event, and until the meaning is grasped, the communicative purpose was not accomplished. The resurrection changed the way God’s human creatures could grasp hold of their task of living.
Sermon on Luke 8.37 just before the EU referendum (O’Donovan, 2016)
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Scripture and Christian Ethics (O’Donovan, 2007)
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