Margaret is a former Maths and RE teacher who developed Temple Theology, a new way of doing biblical study that links Old and
 New testaments to Christian worship and current environment concerns.

Margaret took very early retirement from her teaching career to devote her time to
research, leading to the development of Temple Theology and a prolific writing career - her fifteenth book will be published this October.  Margaret is a mother and grandmother, a Methodist local
preacher and since it opened in 1978, has been a fundraising volunteer for a
Women’s Refuge. 

‘O Thou who changest not…’

We talk now about real time and then… what?  The early Christians distinguished between our time in this life and a very different time, which was, for them, ‘real time.’  This real time was the ever-presence of God, sometimes called ‘eternity.’  It was the state in the midst of the material and temporal world, what Jesus called ‘the Kingdom in the midst’ (Luke 17.21).  In their worship they brought this truly ‘real’ time into their lives, and so lived by the values of another state of life.  They expressed this in music, because their harmony joined with the worship of the angels.