17th Sunday after Trinity

Two days ago, I took a train out of St Pancras’ Station to go and see a former student who is now a priest in the Diocese of Peterborough.  It was a short journey but I got into an interesting conversation with a young woman who sat opposite me. She turned out to be a deeply committed Christian, and was very interested to know about my work as a teacher in a theological college in the United States.  At one point in our conversation, she suddenly said, ‘Do you believe the Bible is the Word of God?’  I replied, ‘I certainly do, but I am not a fundamentalist.’