Laidlaw College
Volume 28 / Issue 2 / 2021
Editorial
Remembering fondly our three Covid editions last year, again we invited contributions to this edition based around living in the ... Read more…Guidelines for Contributors
Stimulus welcomes the submission of material for Publication. Read more…Lessons From and For the Church in Covid Times: Looking Back and Forwards
In the first semester of 2021, I had the privilege of five months of research leave: time set aside to ask, listen, read, analyse, ... Read more…How might the Bible inform Christian Responses to Covid-19?
“Jesus is My Vaccine,” reads the placard carried by a cartoon character in a cartoon appearing in the New Zealand Listener.[1] Read more…Pastor as Poet in the Time of the Pandemic: Exploring a Pastoral Image through Amy Plantinga Pauw’s Wisdom Ecclesiology
My context is Aotearoa New Zealand. Read more…“The Furnace of Divine Wrath”: Providence in John Owen’s Preaching on the Plague and Fire of London.
Should we see God’s hand of judgement in Covid-19? Read more…Navigating the Moral Dilemma of the Flood
The flood has long been a topic of debate, much of which has centred on the historicity and extent of the flood. Read more…Ministry Corner: Interview with Anne and Alister Irwin.
Stimulus joined with Anne and Alister Irwin via zoom during Auckland’s level 3.2 lockdown in November 2021. Read more…Synergeo: What’s Hope got to do with it? Conversations on Teaching, Inquiry and Lasting change
There is a relationship between the joy essential to teaching activity and hope. Hope is something shared between teachers and ... Read more…The Voice: Exile/Esther/Exodus/Easter
“There is a secret in every work of art; there is a secret in every tale – a secret which only the teller knows and sometimes the ... Read more…Hearts and Minds: Lockdowns, Common Sense and Being Sensible
At the beginning of September, I was relieved as an Aucklander to learn of the government’s announcement that they would relax the ... Read more…Stimulus: The Bible (in briefs)
It has come to the attention of the publishers of Stimulus that people aren’t reading the Bible like they used to when they, well, ... Read more…Video: Vision: The Two Popes
Release date: November 2019, Directed by: Fernando Meirelles, Screenplay by: Anthony McCarten, Available on: Netflix Read more…Video: SOMETHING
George Harrison’s hit song Something (from the Beatles’ album Abbey Road) might well be saying more than it initially appears.[1] Read more…Book Review: The Letter of Jude and the Second Letter of Peter: A Theological Commentary
JÖRG FREY (KATHLEEN ESS, TRANSLATOR) WACO: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018. xlii +518 PP. ISBN 978-1-4813-0919-6 $134.99. Read more…Book Review: Navigating Tough Texts: A Guide to Problem Passages in the New Testament.
MURRAY J. HARRIS BELLINGHAM, WA: LEXHAM, 2020. XVII + 226 PP. ISBN 9781683593959. $39.08. Read more…Book Review: Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief and Anxiety.
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN EUGENE, OR: CASCADE BOOKS, 2020. XII + 80PP. ISBN 978-1-7253-7673-4. $20.00 Read more…Book Review: Discovering the New Testament: An Introduction to its Background, Theology, and Themes. Volume II: The Pauline Letters.
MARK J. KEOWN BELLINGHAM, WA: LEXHAM, 2021. XX + 615 pp. ISBN. 978-1-683-59382-09. Hardback edition, $119.00; Logos edition $35.99. Read more…Book Review: Cascade Companion to Evil.
CHARLES TALIAFERRO (CASCADE COMPANIONS) EUGENE, OR: CASCADE BOOKS, 2020. IX + 104 PP. ISBN: 978-1-7252-8820-1. $23.00. Read more…Book Review: Let's Back Up a Bit.
BRETT WILSON CASTLE PUBLISHING, NEW ZEALAND, 2020. 262PP. ISBN 978-0-473-53464-6. $26.95. Read more…Book Review: Christ the Cornerstone: Collected Essays of John Stott
INTRODUCTION BY MARK LABBERTON BELLINGHAM: LEXHAM, 2019. X + 365 PP. ISBN 9781683593409. $31.00. Read more…Book Review: Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford Astrazenca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
SARAH GILBERT & CATHERINE GREEN (WRITTEN WITH DEBORAH CREWE). LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2021. 336 PP (INCLUDING APPENDICES AND ... Read more…
