Guidelines September to December 2008
Instead of the usual dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into at least six sections, plus an introduction giving context for the passage and a final section of points for thought and prayer.
On any day you can read as many or as few sections as you wish, to fit in with work or home routine. As well as a copy of Guidelines, you will need a Bible. Each contributor also suggests books for further study.
Published every four months (in January, May and September) and edited by Katharine Dell and Jeremy Duff.
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Writers in this issue:
Alec Gilmore is a Baptist minister, writer and lecturer on biblical themes, former editor of Lutterworth Press and Director, Feed the Minds. He has written A Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation (T & T Clark/Continuum, 2007).
Jonathan T. Pennington is Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He holds a PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of St Andrews and is the author of Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew (Brill, 2007).
David Spriggs is a Baptist minister, living in England with his wife, Eileen. Following three pastorates, David has worked nationally for the Evangelical Alliance (UK) and, for the last ten years, for Bible Society. He is the author of several books, including Connected Christianity for BRF.
Jeremy Duff is Director of Lifelong Learning in Liverpool Diocese and Canon at Liverpool Cathedral, as well as being the New Testament Editor for Guidelines. His latest book, Meeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God, was published by SPCK in 2006.
Joanna McGrath is senior lecturer in psychology of religion at Heythrop College, University of London, and a curate in an Oxfordshire parish. She is the joint author of Meeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God and The Dawkins Delusion. She is currently working on a book about Jesus and the spirituality and psychology of women.
Katharine Dell is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and Director of Studies in Theology at St Catharine's College. She is also the Old Testament Editor for Guidelines, and the author of Job in BRF's People's Bible Commentary series.
Jenny Hellyer is a spiritual director, musician, clergy wife and mother based in Oxford. After teaching and theological study, she was part of the Lee Abbey Community in Devon for seven years.
David Clark worked as a Bible Society Translation Consultant for 30 years, 20 in Asia and the Pacific and 10 in Europe. After retiring from UBS he worked for five more years with the Institute for Bible Translation in Russia. He thinks he has now retired again, though his wife is inclined to doubt it. He is co-author of three volumes in the UBS Translator's Handbook series.
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