Another Tyndale House Conference

Peter

Dirk

Tony

I do like the work Tyndal House is doing and so when I realised there was a conferncee at IPC Ealing nearby I decided to go along. It is the anniversary of the publication of Tyndale's New Testament this year and so there was a paper from Tony Watkins on Tyndale plus A typical Peter Williams paper and one on textual matters from Dirk Joongkind, who I had not heard before. About 70 there in person I guess. I knew almost no-one though there was one family that used to be in our church many years ago. So nice to see them. Good questio times. So much to be positive about. Bought some nice books too.

Carey Conference 2026 Day 2a

On the morning of our only full day here at the Carey we heard again very helpfully from Peter Williams on archaeology and the Bible and then James Mildred of CARE spoke on the subject of abortion and current and future legislation. Again, very enlighteniing and stirring. We have a free afternoon.

Conference in Cambridge

Williams, Bejon, Howard,Watkins

On Saturday I was in Cambridge for a conference organised by Tyndale House. We were in C3 an impressive state of the art church building, complete with a glitter ball, something we somwhow manage without here in Childs Hill. About 120 were there with others online. The day was split up into four sessions. Tony Watkins began with a gentle reminder of the importane of the Old Testament. Then the dynamo that is Peter Williams presented an eclectic paper on archaeology and names and other helpful matters to help us with the Old Testament. He actually had us reading Moabite! Not an every day experience at all. After lunch we had two more helpful papers on genealogies (James Bejon) and the Assyrian invasion of 701 BC (Caleb Howard). There was also a Q&A at the end. I hardly knew anyone there but it was nice to talk to one or two (a young man from a Grace Baptist church, a lady and her home schooled children, an American student new to Cambridge). I picked up some of ther brilliant magazines and a free book too. They are doing great work. Check out their website here.

Tony Wilcox at The Westminster Fellowship

I failed to report on last Monday. Last Monday was the November meeting of the Westminster Fellowship. The usual twenty or so gathered to hear Tony Wilcox from Tyndale House. Tony is a very pleasant academic with an interest in the Old Testament. He introduced us, more generally, to Tyndale House and, more specifically, to current Old Testament studies. This latter segment included a quick tour through trauma theology. Copies of the atest TH mag were made available adn I have been enjoying articles this week. We should be thankful to Tyndale House for its work, although it all sounds very tedious and mainly just inches things forward and it is not work I think I could devote myself to. Most of it is appreciated, however.