Richard Turnbull – a loss that is felt across the globe
John Martin with a personal reflection on the life of theologian Richard Turnbull who died recently. A separate obituary was carried by en on 27 November, here.
I first encountered Richard in Southampton, when he joined the clergy team at my home church just as I was moving away to university. When I came home between terms, he had already earned the title of being a “hot Prot”. Whether this label was meant as a compliment or a criticism I am not sure, but he seemed to embrace it with pride.
Hundreds attend new Cotswold Bible Festival
Saturday 23 November marked the inaugural Cotswold Bible Festival. Around 700 adults and children converged on the festival town of Cheltenham for a day of thought-provoking Bible teaching, excel-lent music and a whole host of seminars and fun activities.
The event was conceived by a group of like-minded local evangelical Christian leaders who were keen to run a Keswick-style event for churches across the Cotswolds. The vision for the event came together a year ago, with encouraging conversations with Jonathan Lamb and James Robson at Keswick Ministries leading to the formation of ‘Keswick Gloucestershire’ in association with the Keswick Fellowship – a network of similar events across the country. The event itself was given separate branding to help draw in those who were less familiar with ‘Keswick’, and to allow for other events to be run under the ‘Keswick Gloucestershire’ banner in the future.
