I make no apologies for copying this for others to read. The writer is and was one of the most inspirational lecturers I had during my ministry/theological training. The time I spent in Jerusalem was so special, I cannot ever stop pulling on so many experiences whilst I was there and trying to apply what [...]
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Remembering
Posted in Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Christianity, Conflict, Control, Holocaust, Politics, Prayer, Reconciliation, Revenge, Violence, War, War on Drugs on Monday, November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Something special – a prayer for Prison
Posted in Chaplaincy, Christ, Christianity, Christology, Compassion, Conflict, Emergent, Emerging, Freedom, Good Theology, Holiness, Liturgy, Prayer, Prison, Reconciliation, Restoration on Thursday, October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have used this prayer – excellent and real!!
http://holdthisspace.org.au/prison-chaplains-workshop/
This is a holy space and a sacred time. Not because god is here in any special way – God is no different in this place to anywhere else – but because [...]
how the church turned inward..
Posted in Bad Theology, Christianity, Church, Compassion, Consumer, Control, Culture, Institution, Institutionalism, Integrity, tagged Christian, Compassion. Politics, Integrity on Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
how the church turned inward..: “Shonnie Scott, one of the board members of Mustard Seed Associates, is writing a dissertation on how the ministry of the church has turned in on itself. Instead of providing for the needs of our neighbors (what she calls Kingdom Work), we have chosen to form structures and ministries that [...]
Ancient-Future Worship
Posted in Books, Christianity, Church, Worship, tagged Church, Liturgy, Tradition, Worship on Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ancient-Future Worship: “
I have been deeply influenced by Robert Webber’s thought as it trickled into my own thought through third parties and articles concerning Robert Webber and the Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future. Yet I had never read one of his books in its entirety, so over the summer I read Ancient-Future Worship, the [...]
It’s All About Jesus
Posted in Christianity, Christology, Compassion, Good Theology, Holiness, Institutionalism, Integrity, Reconciliation, Worship, tagged Christian, Compassion, Integrity, Jesus, Justice, Love, Shalom, Theology on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s All About Jesus: “
“Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.’” – Matthew 16:24-25
This truth is inescapable: If [...]
4.2 Ordination and Training
Posted in Christianity, Church, Institution, Ordination, tagged Ordination on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
4.2 Ordination and Training: “In the last section, we looked at some of the forms leadership took in the earliest churches. We suggested that most assemblies probably had a group of elders or overseers, although it would be impossible to say all churches structured themselves the same way. It seems quite possible that certain individuals [...]
The Scandal of the Gospel
Posted in Christ, Christianity, Christology, Church, Freedom, Good Theology, Reconciliation, Theology, tagged Christian, Church, Compassion, Holiness, Justice, Shalom, Theology on Friday, September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Scandal of the Gospel: “
This is a message I wrote for my church that I hope extends encouragement to you as well.
In his modern-day classic, “The Ragamuffin Gospel”, Brennan Manning writes an poignant introduction to his book that I can’t help but think would make a meaningful manifesto for the kind of people we [...]
Harry Potter as savior
Posted in Christ, Christianity, Christology, Culture, Film, tagged Film, Harry Potter, Jesus, Theology on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Potter as savior: “
Courtesy of the Orthodixie website, the picture above comes from an edition of The Dallas Morning News. As he points out some have found the picture to be quite offensive, as it is the traditional Orthodox pose by Jesus Christ. And, not surprisingly, there are the opposite commenters who are, uhm, [...]
Is this the kind of fast I have chosen?
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Evangelical, Good Theology, Integrity, Jerusalem, Judaism, Muslim, Ramadam, Reconciliation, Theology on Sunday, August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re-posted article from The Jesus Manifesto
Originally Submitted by Jordan Peacock
http://www.jesusmanifesto.com/2009/08/is-this-the-kind-of-fast-i-have-chosen/
Email: hewhocutsdown@gmail.com Site: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=518179309 About: Jordan Peacock lives in Minnesota, south of the Twin Cities. He is finding it far easy to be outspoken than to integrate his life with his stated beliefs, and is slowly working to rectify that [...]
Rembrandt and Nouwen meet at the Prodigal Son parable
Posted in Art, Christianity, Compassion, Henri Nouwen, Rembrandt, Theology on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last couple of weeks I have been reading Henri J.M Nouwen. In particular, I have enjoyed and been challenged by his ‘In the name of Jesus’, but especially so by his ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’. I have probably taken the latter parable for granted, being comfortable with what it was conceived [...]
