Theology in Scotland

08/07/2024

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope you're enjoying your summer. With election 'fever' over and a new UK government in place, a pause in the Euros before the semi-finals, and Sir. Andy Murray's final Wimbledon appearance prematurely behind us - you may be in the mood for something different...

So, for those who have not yet exhausted the riches of our latest - unthemed - edition, here are a few highlights for your consideration:

John Carswell, minister of Cadzow Parish Church in Hamilton, considers the comprehensibility and plausibility of the Christian faith inside and outside the contemporary Church, in 'Gospel plausibility and Community Organising: A missionary endeavour': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2751

Mary Cullen, editor of the Roman Catholic periodical Open House, considers the importance of lay engagement within the Church since, in 'Vatican II: Keeping the conversation open
Open House and Vatican II': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2755

And Prof. David Jasper, for many years the Gifford Lectures supremo at the University of Glasgow, writes about some of the contributors he helped appoint and who made an impact on this famous lecture series in natural theology: 'Reflections of a Gifford Committee convenor': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2757

Enjoy the articles. More posts coming.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Reflections of a Gifford Committee convenor Article Sidebar PDF Published: May 21, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v31i1.2757 Keywords: Gifford lectures, Simon Blackburn, David Fergusson, Charles Taylor, Gianni Vattimo, Jean-Luc Marion Main Article Content David Jasper Emeritus Professor at t...

05/12/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this finds you well in the first week of Advent, and the start of the final month of 2023.

As many of you will know, our Autumn edition is devoted to the topic of Ecumenism in Scotland. In the first in a series of posts profiling its contents, we recommend the written version of Paul T. Nimmo's Shaw Lecture, delivered at the University of St Andrews in February 2023 - examining the promise and challenge of ecumenism today.

Professor Nimmo's 'Ecumenism: Gospel imperative, harsh reality, and pilgrim journey ', can be accessed free and in full right here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2665

We hope you enjoy the article. Thanks for following and for sharing.

Jonathan and the editorial team.

Ecumenism: Gospel imperative, harsh reality, and pilgrim journey (D. W. D. Shaw memorial lecture 2023) Article Sidebar PDF Published Nov 10, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i2.2665 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internation...

20/11/2023

Dear friends of Theology in Scotland,

The Autumn 2023 issue of the journal is online now. It's a themed issue on ecumenism in Scotland.

https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/issue/view/242

From the Editorial:
"What should we be learning from each other, and with each other, in the increasingly post-Christian context of today’s Scotland? For this issue of Theology in Scotland, contributors were invited to explore various facets of ecumenical theology and reflect on different expressions of ecumenical engagement."

Its centrepiece is the text of the D. W. D. Shaw Lecture, given earlier this year by Prof Paul Nimmo. Alongside it are a three-way conversation on ecumenism at a local level; an article on the Iona Community and the ecumenical movement; and an article on inter-church relations encountered through self-giving love expressed in intercession.

The issue also features a poem by Samuel Tongue, a reflection on a classic Gifford Lectures series, an extended review of a book on cats and philosophy, and shorter reviews of recent books.

The print version of the journal will be out in a couple of weeks.

03/11/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope you have entered November in good spirits. To round off our reposting of articles from the Spring edition on Faith and Autism, we end with two very different pieces.

Showcasing the humanistic traditions of theology, along with autoethnography; and insights from the social sciences and health & social care...

Edward Ceney ( Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford), '"Though the earth gives way": An autoethnographic account of autistic grief': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2577

And...

Krysia Emily Waldock (University of Kent) and Precious Nonye Sango (London Metropolitan University), 'Autism, faith and churches: The research landscape and where we go next': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2578

Enjoy (re)visiting these pieces, and have a great weekend---with or without the fireworks.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Autism, faith and churches: The research landscape and where we go next Article Sidebar PDF Published May 18, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i1.2578 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 2023....

25/10/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this finds you all in good form this Wednesday afternoon. As the ink dries on the articles penned for the Autumn edition, we look back to a substantial review essay which appeared in our (very popular) Spring edition, on Autism and Faith.

The following is a collaboration led by Dr. Armand Léon van Ommen, with doctoral researchers from the Centre for Autism and Theology, University of Aberdeen: featuring Bryan W Fowler, Ian Lasch, Henna J. Cundill, and Christopher Barber.

The essay, 'Autism Theology: Discussions from an emerging field', engages with some recent book-length studies by Claire Williams (Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology, SCM Press, 2023): Ruth M. Dunster (The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story, Pickwick Publications, 2022); Stewart Rapley (Autistic Thinking in the Life of the Church, SCM Press, 2021); and Cynthia Tam, Kinship in the Household of God: Towards a Practical Theology of Belonging and Spiritual Care of People with Profound Autism (Pickwick Publications, 2021).

The digital version of that essay can be accessed here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2580/1984

Enjoy your day and the rest of the week.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

16/10/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this finds you well. The editing process for the Autumn issue of the journal, on the theme of ecumenism, is well underway....

For the time being, if you haven't yet read all the pieces from our most recent issue, we can recommend Harry Gibbins distinctive take on matters of faith and autism:, in 'Rolling with advantage: Why Dungeons & Dragons provides new insight into the Christian concept of the imago Dei for autistic Christians'. To download the article, for free, just follow this link: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2576

Enjoy your evening.

Thanks for following and for sharing,

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Rolling with advantage: Why Dungeons & Dragons provides new insight into the Christian concept of the imago Dei for autistic Christians Article Sidebar PDF Published May 18, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i1.2576 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribut...

06/10/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope you are heading into the weekend in good spirits. Looking ahead to forthcoming events which may be of interest to our readers...

One of our contributing partners - New College, Edinburgh, - has announced the programme for its 2023 Festival of Books and Belief, directed by Prof. Alison Jack.

It is taking place 02-04 November and features such speakers as Ayesha Chaudhry, Alister McGrath, Kathy Galloway, and Alistair Moffat.

For full details of the programme, and to get access to recordings of past events, follow the link: https://mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-1Z3AF-9AF506D9ACE6F3813BQCB305F6F7FF24C93747/cr.aspx

Have a great weekend.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Join us on Thursday 2nd to hear Laura Saetveit Miles tell us ‘How to read like the Virgin’. Ayesha S. Chaudhry will be here on Friday 3rd to speak about her book, ‘The Colour of God’, which examines the joys and sorrows of life in the wreckage of colonialism. Later on Friday, Merryn Glover, ...

05/09/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this finds you well and enjoying (or enduring) this resurgence of summer weather---perfectly timed as many of us return to work!

For work of a ministerial and worship-leading nature, the following may be of interest to you. One of our contributing universities (Edinburgh) is offering a face-to-face CPD event this month on Wed 20 September: Resources for the Worship Year Ahead.

The event includes contributions from New Testament scholar Prof. Paul Foster (Edinburgh) and Ruth Harvey, leader of the Iona Community. Prof. Alison Jack will also outline the range of short courses offered by the School of Divinity.

For full details of the event, click here:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/news-events/events/resources-worship-year-ahead-cpd-event-ministers

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Kind regards,

Jonathan and the editorial team

An interactive CPD event for Ministers.

01/09/2023

Dear friends of Theology in Scotland,

We're starting work on planning our issue for Spring 2024. This time it will be an unthemed issue.

We'd welcome proposals for articles, theological reflections, academic interviews, creative compositions, or your own original suggestions for contributions on any topic relating to life and faith in Scotland and/or the Scottish theological tradition.

More details here:
https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/announcement/view/67

19/08/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

Thank you and welcome to our new followers over the last couple of weeks. We are continuing to profile articles and reviews from our most recent issue on Autism and Faith.

This week we look back on a contribution from Rev. Roz Lawson, who is an assistant chaplain at the University of Glasgow. Roz, a Baptist minister, writes here as a mother of an autistic son, engages with two major theoretical models for understanding autism, and assesses their relative prospects for constructive theological engagement.

'One autism story, two autism theories, many autism gifts' can be downloaded directly here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2575

Thanks for following and for sharing.

Enjoy your weekends.

Jonathan and the editorial team

One autism story, two autism theories, many autism gifts Article Sidebar PDF Published May 18, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i1.2575 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 2023 Roz Lawson Main...

04/08/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this finds you well and enjoying the summer. The weather has been less than glorious since we last wrote, but given the extremes that our European neighbors have been experiencing, we probably shouldn't complain.

This month we would like to highlight a couple more pieces from our latest edition on Autism and Faith, not least to show our gratitude to our contributors. Two very different pieces this time.

From the main body of articles, we have a reflective piece by Emma McDonald, a minister in the Church of Scotland. Emma's personal experience of the challenges of raising an autistic child within the context of different churches, over a period of years, can be accessed here:
s.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2574

And from our reviews section, journalist Emma Cowing discusses a book by one of Scotland's most prominent, young stand-up comedians, Fern Brady. Brady's autobiography, and Emma's review, focus on the particular challenges that autistic women face of even being diagnosed, and of negotiating modern British society more generally. The review of Brady's Strong Female Character (Brazen, 2023), can be accessed here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2582

Enjoy the articles and reviews. And enjoy your weekend. Thanks for following and for sharing.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

"Strong Female Character" by Fern Brady Article Sidebar PDF Published May 19, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i1.2582 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 2023 Emma Cowing Main Article Content...

08/06/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope the sun is still shining, and the skies blue, wherever you are this evening.

Thank you for the positive feedback on our latest edition, on Autism and Faith. If you haven't yet dipped into the issue (as unlikely as that is), then our editor-in-chief, Rev. Dr. Lina Toth provides the perfect introductory guide in her editorial:

https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2573

For those of you who typically turn straight to the reviews section of a journal to see what's worth reading (or avoiding), Philip D Foster, a regular contributor, reviews New Testament scholar Grant Macaskill's Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community (Baylor University Press, 2019). And for Dr. Foster, this book, by the co-director of Aberdeen's Centre for Autism and Theology, is certainly worth reading:

https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2581

Thanks for following and for sharing.

Jonathan and the TiS editorial team

"Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community" by Grant Macaskill Article Sidebar PDF Published May 19, 2023 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v30i1.2581 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 20...

22/05/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

Our Spring 2023 issue of the journal is now available online. It's a themed issue on Autism and Faith.

https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/issue/view/236

From the Editorial: "As the title suggests, this issue is devoted to a theme that has become much more prominent in the general public discourse over recent years, yet still lacks sustained attention or an in-depth, creative consideration in the life of the Church as well as in theological thought."

The issue aims to add to the conversation with our usual mix of articles and book reviews, plus an extended review essay and a poem.

Several of the contributors identify as autistic; others have an intimate experience of autism. Together they bring a breadth of perspective and a depth of insight that is enlightening, perceptive and often eye-opening.

The print version of the journal will be out in a couple of weeks.

08/04/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

Happy Easter one and all. We hope this finds you well. Some short reads for the bank holiday: a few notices of books, published in the last couple of issues, which may be of interest to you as you plot your reading for the spring and summer. We begin with the most contextually appropriate given the liturgical calendar, followed by discussions of topics as diverse as theology and disability, Christianity and political extremism, and the theology of marriage and same-sex unions. Here you go:

Dr. Ann Gillian Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University) on W. Ross Hastings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Exploring its Theological Significance and Ongoing Relevance (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022): https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2528

Dr. Liam Waldron (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) on Brian Brock, Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ’s Body (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021): https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2527

Dr. Doug Gay (University of Glasgow) on Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich Schmiedel, The Claim to Christianity: Responding to the Far Right (London: SCM, 2020): https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2428

Philip D. Foster (Scottish Bulletin of Theology), on Darrin W. Snyder Belousek, Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2021): https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2430

Enjoy the reviews and your weekend.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

“Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union” by Darrin W. Snyder Belousek Article Sidebar PDF Published May 6, 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i1.2430 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non...

22/03/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well. As minds turn towards the Spring edition, a look back to an event last month, reflecting on the life and legacy of a man who presided over so many editions of this journal: our first editor, Bill Shaw.

The Revd Professor D.W.D. Shaw Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof. Paul Nimmo at the University of St. Andrews. The speaker, along with other honored guests, is pictured on the night itself below:

From left to right:
Prof. Oliver Crisp (Head of School & Principal of St Mary’s College, University of Andrews)
Prof. Paul Nimmo (King’s Chair of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen)
Prof. Dame Sally Mapstone (Principal & Vice-Chancellor, St Andrews)
Ms. Lindsay Logan, Mr. Bill Logan, & Mr. Douglas Shaw (all members of Bill Shaw's family).

27/02/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well. With more options than ever for online courses and reflections during this Lenten period, we look back to a time when meeting online was a necessity rather than a choice for sustaining the Church.

From our last edition 'Church, virtual and physical', we have a conversation between Baptist ministers Dr. Ruth Gouldbourne and Dr. Steve Holmes: 'From one degree of imperfection to another: A consideration of gathering in different ways': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2507

Enjoy the conversation. and your evening.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

From one degree of imperfection to another: A consideration of gathering in different ways Article Sidebar PDF Published Nov 22, 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i2.2507 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.....

20/02/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well. This is just a reminder that the Shaw Memorial Lecture will be taking place tomorrow, in honour of our founding editor, Rev. Prof. D.W.D. Shaw OBE (1928-2020). A memorial will also be unveiled, prior to the lecture, at the University of St. Andrews. See below for further details.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

15/02/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well. One of our contributing universities (Edinburgh) has a new short course starting next month, in the School of Divinity: Leadership in a time of change.

The course is organised by Rev. Prof. Susan Hardman Moore, and there is still time to sign up! More details can be found below.

With best wishes,

Jonathan

08/02/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

I hope this message finds you well. For anyone who may be thinking of post-graduate study next academic year....

One of our contributing universities (Glasgow) is advertising an exciting new post-graduate programme on Religion and Global Challenges. This is hosted in Theology and Religious Studies within the School of Critical Studies and College of Arts. For more details, click here:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/religion-global-challenges/

With best wishes,

Jonathan

This innovative programme studies the influence of religions and cultures on people and the planet and uses religious studies theories and methods to better understand and respond to the major challenges of our times. The programme will benefit professionals and practitioners from governmental, char...

01/02/2023

Dear friends of Theology in Scotland,
We're seeking proposals for contributions for our Autumn 2023 issue on ecumenism in Scotland.
We are looking for articles, academic interviews, theological reflections, creative compositions - and we welcome your own original suggestions.
More details here:
https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/announcement/view/66

16/01/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well and defying the infamous 'blue Monday equation' about seasonal moods reaching their lowest today. Nonsense, we say. And here's another free article from TiS to make you feel even better...

We continue our series on 'Church, virtual and physical', with a piece by the Rev. Dr Michael Hull, Director of Studies of the Scottish Episcopal Institute (Edinburgh). Dr. Hull asks the question: 'Why not an online Eucharist?' and gives a robust response in 'A Scottish-Episcopal perspective on presence': https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2506

We hope you enjoy the article and your evening.

Best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Why not an ‘online Eucharist’?: A Scottish-Episcopal perspective on presence Article Sidebar PDF Published Nov 22, 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i2.2506 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright ...

04/01/2023

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope you have had a restful Christmas and holiday season (or a riotous one, if you preferred). And we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year.

We'll begin 2023 with a short read from our latest edition on 'Church, virtual and physical'.

This poem, a poignant reflection by Sorrel Shamel-Wood, describes the first time Sorrell and her husband (then fiancé) set foot inside a church after the closure of places of worship, as part of the UK's lockdown response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

'Churches Will Open for Private Prayer' can be downloaded, for free, right here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2523/1919

We hope you enjoy it, and we wish you all well in your start to the year.

Thank you for following and for sharing.

Kind regards,

Jonathan and the editorial team

15/12/2022

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We are pleased to announce that the second in an annual series of lectures honouring our founding editor, Rev. Prof. Bill Shaw, will he delivered by Prof. Paul Nimmo (University of Aberdeen) on 21 February 2023 in St Andrews.

More details at https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/announcement/view/64

We hope to see you there.

D. W. D. Shaw Memorial Lecture 2023 Posted on 2022-12-15 This is the second in an annual series of lectures honouring Theology in Scotland’s founding editor, Professor Bill Shaw.This year’s lecturer is Professor Paul Nimmo, who currently holds the King's Chair of Systematic Theology at the Unive...

09/12/2022

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you in fine fettle this Friday afternoon. Some of you may now be experiencing powerful withdrawal symptoms after no world cup matches since Tuesday evening. But you don’t have long to wait! For others, you may have been enjoying the respite from an intrusive winter football tournament. Either way, we have something for you...

From our Autumn edition, on the theme of Church, Virtual and Physical, we bring you this article by Dr. Tom Shields, who is a parish priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld. Here is his ‘Virtual assurance: Reflecting on the "confident prayer of the Church" through online worship’: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2505.

Enjoy. As a footnote, I will miss seeing Father Tom at St Fillan’s, Crieff, at Christmas. But this year my mother-in-law is coming to Glasgow, so that’s that.

Now, if you cannot wait for Brazil v Croatia at 3.00pm, and will consume anything with even the most tenuous connection to football, our review essay this week (by yours truly) discusses books by two of the England national team’s most famous supporters: ‘Three Lions, divine comedy and making Jews count: Baddiel and Skinner, then and now’: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2526

Enjoy your Friday, with or without football, and the weekend when it comes.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Three Lions, divine comedy and making Jews count: Baddiel and Skinner, then and now Article Sidebar PDF Published Nov 22, 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i2.2526 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyrig...

08/12/2022

The School of Divinity and the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts are deeply saddened by the death of Ann Loades on 6 December 2022 after a brief illness. Ann had been an Honorary Professor at St Andrews since 2009, and contributed greatly to the community especially of ITIA.

More widely, Ann was one of 20th- and 21st-century British theology's great figures, the first woman to receive a personal chair at the University of Durham, and the second person ever to be honoured with a CBE for services to theology. She was 84.

A recently released film captures her journey, life and thought with visual and textual beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rLZct2oRw.

A memorial service will take place in the spring of 2023.

29/11/2022

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well as we edge towards December.

Among the less well-known controversies surrounding the World Cup in Qatar was the questionable decision to stage it to coincide with the publication of the Autumn 2022 edition of Theology in Scotland. But here we are.

If anyone hasn't yet read the introduction to the issue by our editor-in-chief, Lina Toth, and you have time to spare before the 7.00pm kick-offs, look no further: Editorial: Church, Virtual and Physical: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/2504

Good luck to the home nations this evening. May the best team win.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

Editorial: Church, virtual and physical Article Sidebar PDF Published Nov 22, 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i2.2504 Copyright Information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 2022 Lina Toth Main Article Content L...

22/11/2022

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

Our autumn 2022 issue is now available online at https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/issue/view/233

The issue, titled 'Church, virtual and physical', aims to contribute to a conversation about how churches begin to inhabit a post-pandemic world.

Dealing with questions about the place of online participation in the life of the Church, and about what happens with our buildings, clergy from across the theological spectrum in Scotland have contributed a fascinating range of views and experiences.

Also included in the issue are:
- a poem on the experience of visiting a church building for the first time post-lockdown
- a review of Jack Halberstam's recent Gifford Lecture
- an extended review of two new books on faith and identity by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel
- and our usual selection of shorter reviews of new books.

The print version of the journal will be out in a couple of weeks.

27/10/2022

Dear Friends of Theology in Scotland,

We hope this message finds you well. As the (early) dark nights take hold, and their toll, some highlights from the worlds of faith and culture to look forward to...

Yes, the autumn edition of TiS will be with you next month, but before that (probably) is New College Edinburgh's Festival of Books and Belief: 03 November - 05 November. Click here for details: https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/new-college-festival

Confirmed speakers include N. T. Wright, Helen Bond, Joan Taylor, Rowan Williams, and many more: https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/new-college-festival/about-us

Explore and enjoy. More soon.

With best wishes,

Jonathan and the editorial team

A festival of literature, religion and the imagination 3-5 November 2021, New College, University of Edinburgh