Three of the UK’s most prominent Christian groups – Keswick, UCCF and Spring Harvest – have ended a 14-year conference partnership amid growing debate over the penal substitution. Read on here.

The CT article also links to Hans Boersma’s article, ‘The Disappearance of Punishment: Metaphors, models, and the meaning of the atonement‘

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Stephen N. Williams’ article, Atonement: The Penal View?: Toward a trinitarian theology of atonement.

The hotness of this topic is also evident in the recent release of Pierced for Our Transgressions, by Steve Jeffery, Mike Ovey, Andrew Sach – a book that comes with its own website.