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In our latest editorial, Jasper Knecht challenges the idea that tradition speaks with a single voice and explores what it really means to inherit, interpret, and live out past traditions today. Read for free now at Between Times: between-times.co.uk/tradition/the-…

Is tradition simply handed down, or something constantly selected, interpreted, and reshaped? In our opening editorial for the latest issue of Between Times, Jasper Knecht examines why tradition is never quite as fixed as it seems, and why that matters. between-times.co.uk/tradition/the-…

5/5 Taken together, these essays offer an excellent introduction to some of the central questions running through the issue as a whole. See all articles from this issue here: between-times.co.uk/category/secul…

4/5 In 'On Speaking Freely,' Andrew Errington argues that Christian concern for free speech must extend beyond legal rights alone. He calls for the recovery of Christian parrēsia: bold speech grounded in Christ’s work and empowered by the Holy Spirit. between-times.co.uk/secularism/on-…

1/5 In the latest issue of Between Times, we explore the theme of 'responding to secularism.' Three essays in particular offer helpful points of entry into the issue, clarifying both the challenge of secularism and some of the forms that Christian response might take. 🧵

A podcast from the Quo Vadis Institute with Prof. John Wyatt, reflecting on euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the arguments of his book Death without Dignity? Amid renewed debate around assisted dying, it offers a timely resource for reflection. open.spotify.com/episode/5F89mh…

As Between Times takes a short break from its regular article schedule, we are pleased to share the Chalmers Institute Public Lecture series. These are designed to bring the riches of academic theology into closer conversation with the life of the church. open.spotify.com/show/5uL0pvdgk…

A closing reflection from the managing editors on the first edition of Between Times, Responding to Secularism, and a look ahead to our next theme, Tradition. between-times.co.uk/secularism/res…

What differences can the church truly bear, and at what point does tolerance cease to be a virtue and become indifference? @jaredmichelson revisits the architecture of tolerance, clarifying what it is, what it is not, and why recovering it matters now. between-times.co.uk/secularism/tol…

Jonathan Fraser suggests the church's obsession with 'innovation' can unintentionally promote a sub-Christian, inhumane vision of human persons as self-creating autonomous individuals without limits. between-times.co.uk/secularism/inn…

David Taylor draws on Ignatian spirituality to reinterpret failure as 'not simply a problem to solve but a generative pause to inhabit'. between-times.co.uk/secularism/fai…

When we conflate the secular with the secularized, we misconstrue both the supposedly pure, religious past as well as the ‘secular’ present. See the latest from @kingholeung between-times.co.uk/secularism/sec…

Rather than thinking modernity inevitably tends towards the decline of faith, Nathan Wallace suggests globalisation and a growing nihilism might encourage both secularisation and religious resurgence. between-times.co.uk/secularism/res…

Should religious arguments be excluded from public or political dialogue? @theosnick from @Theosthinktank provocatively asks if we know what a 'religious' argument is? between-times.co.uk/secularism/arg…

Is the belief that modernity is an age in which myths are unmasked and humans are disenchanted itself an outdated myth? See the latest essay from @KristiMair at Between Times. between-times.co.uk/secularism/bod…

Professor of Politics and International Relations Timothy Taylor analyses the data and reaches some surprising conclusions regarding the way different Christian groups in Scotland view the church's public witness and place in modern society between-times.co.uk/secularism/con…