Contextual Bible Study: Characteristics and Challenges

I have a short piece in the new issue of Modern Believing: The Journal of Theological Liberalism (53.1, pp. 14-22), entitled "Contextual Bible Study: Characteristics and Challenges". This is based on the keynote lecture I gave at the Modern Church conference in July 2011. It gives a background to Contextual Bible Study methodology as laid out by John Riches and Gerald West, and draws on examples from my own 2010 research project "Readings from the Road" (which are set out more fully in the paper I co-wrote with David Nixon and which appeared in Expository Times 123.1, pp. 12-19, "Readings from the Road: Contextual Bible Study with a Group of Homeless and Vulnerably-Housed People").