About Peter Kirk
My name is Peter Kirk, and I live in Chelmsford, Essex, UK. I have been a member of Meadgate Church, Great Baddow for more than 20 years. I started in life by studying Physics at the University of Cambridge, and worked for several years in the electronics and software industry here in Chelmsford. I left this work and studied theology to MA level at London Bible College, now London School of Theology. Then I joined Wycliffe Bible Translators, and after training in linguistics I served for seven years in the Caucasus region, coordinating a Bible translation project. In 2002 I left WBT, but until 2008 I continued to work part time as an exegetical adviser to the same translation project, based at home in the UK with occasional visits to the Caucasus.
If you have ever wondered where my former domain name qaya.org comes from, see this page.
Peter Kirk, Chelmsford, Essex, UK
E-mail: peter AT gentlewisdom DOT org DOT uk (e-mail for blog related traffic only)
February 17th, 2009 at 3:39 am
[...] Peter Kirk at Gentle Wisdom has some helpful comments regarding some technical notes that Mike Aubrey made, all in relation to Ephesians 5. Mike suggests that we understand the participles of Paul’s Greek as pointing us to the results of being filled with the Spirit as opposed to reading the Greek as imperative commandments. Peter goes on to give us a very practical and extremely theological outline for Ephesians 5, which is as follows: [...]
October 5th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Dear Peter. I recently saw your website advertised on a t-shirt a chap was wearing in a pub. Very interesting. I hope one day to get round to reading your blog.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Tom, thanks for confirming that the slogan was a despicable lie!
November 10th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Peter, I’ve been meaning to tell you, your hand in hand header pic blew me away. One day recently, all in a flash, I saw it as a response to the sistine chapel’s disconnected hands, where man won’t quite reach out to God. Here, the positions of father and child are inverted (left to right) and so is the situation. An infant’s level of need is what motivates us to reach up and cling to His finger. Beautiful.
I feel silly saying so much, if you intended all that. (?) Anyway, it moved me briefly to tears. Thanks very much.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Thanks, Bill. This was partly deliberate. I didn’t have in mind the Sistine Chapel picture but it certainly does fit. I was thinking in terms of the father reaching out to the child, and allowing the child to hold on to him even if rather tentatively.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:14 am
Trying to link to Tim Chesterton. I am interesting in reading more about the anabaptist/anglican connections. I can’t seem to find Tim’s blog, and it says I must be invited. Any ideas.
Thanks.
The Rev. Ann Whitaker
USA
February 28th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Ann, Tim’s main blog is now at http://toseeandtofollow.blogspot.com/. He closed down Anabaptist Anglican (so I’m sorry my links don’t work) but he copied at least some of the material on to the new one – see the 2007 archives.
August 26th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Hello there!
I really liked your blog. Perhaps we don’t share much of the same theological views, but I really like your style. There a few blogs out there where you can find good posts without the rants. Thank you.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Diego, thank you for the encouraging words.