
College News and Prayer Request
This week Johnny Juckes shared the news with the college community that he intends to step down as President/Principal. We ask for your prayers in the coming weeks as we search for a successor to Johnny.
This week Johnny Juckes shared the news with the college community that he intends to step down as President/Principal. We ask for your prayers in the coming weeks as we search for a successor to Johnny.
Matthew Sleeman reflects on an evening with clergy and bishops from the Diocese of London discussing changes surrounding marriage and same-sex-attracted relationships commended by the recent General Synod.
Can even the humblest believer in Christ
know more about God than the most profound philosopher without a faith in Christ?
Dr. Alden McCray reflects on this from a series of Lent addresses by Thomas Aquinas.
Oak Hill is really delighted to announce that we have appointed Helen Archer-Smith as our new Director of Operations and Finance.
To follow on from the recent podcast on world mission and the local church, here is a guest blog from Chris Howles, who from his own experience, shares his personal ‘top ten tips’ for healthy links between missionaries and their sending church.
Following on from our recent Deep Roots Podcast episode on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Dr Sydney Tooth showcases some of the pastoral insights these two letters offer us.
Chris Stead unpacks his list of significant books that have shaped his journey as a Christian, student, pastor, and theological educator, and explains why we might want to consider reading them too.
Just now Oak Hill is mostly the colour of straw; the sun has parched many of the lawns and we look to heaven for rain.
That feels true in lots of senses. There are so many challenges on the horizon for us and the churches we seek to serve.
As we look forward, we would love your prayers, as we plan for the next few years in unpredictable and challenging times.
Church history traditionally sits alongside biblical studies, systematic theology, and practical theology as one of the four main areas for study and reflection. And yet, unlike the other three, which all have a fairly straightforward and obvious relevance for the training of future church leaders, the need for church history sometimes seems less obvious. So, why do we bother with it?
“Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes” is the very last thing Job says to God. It’s only when we take into account everything else Job has said up to this point that we can understand why it matters so much, and why we might find ourselves saying something similar, and similarly beautiful.
Following the news that former Oak Hill Principal Gordon Bridger went to be with the Lord just before Christmas, we asked one of his students, Mike Smith, now vicar of St John’s Hartford, to share some memories of him.
Issue 12 of Primer marvels at the incarnation of the Son of God with help from Greg Lanier, Suzanne McDonald, David Shaw, Chris Stead, Nathan Weston, Garry Williams, and something old from John Owen.
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