Love one another
By Maggi Dawn
I was talking to a man a couple of days back, a priest I’ve known since we were both contemplating ordination. He told me a story about how some years ago he’d overheard some senior priests at a big Cathedral bash, talking about the “new” women priests. They were trying to [...]
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How not to respond….. sad.
Posted in Christianity, Church, Communion, Control, Creation, Culture, Diversity, Gender, Injustice, Institution, Institutionalism, Integrity, Love, Ordination, Reconciliation, Theology, Unity on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
It’s All About Jesus
Posted in Christianity, Christology, Compassion, Good Theology, Holiness, Institutionalism, Integrity, Reconciliation, Worship, tagged Compassion, Shalom, Love, Justice, Theology, Integrity, Christian, Jesus 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 [...]
God in unexpected places….
Posted in Altruism, Chaplaincy, Christianity, Compassion, Contemplation, Crime, Culture, Holiness, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Law, Love, Mission, Personal, Prayer, Reconciliation, Restoration, Surreal, Theology on Sunday, August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have had to think very carefully about this article before I put it into words.. You don’t expect some things in the world that we live in dominated by selfishness, the ‘I want now’ society and the ‘get what you can, while you can’ overthrow from the Maggie years. So here goes…
A couple of [...]
So it’s a good idea to do something illegal then?
Posted in Deception, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Law, Police, Politics on Saturday, August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Police told to ignore human rights ruling over DNA database
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 August 2009 21.32 BST
Chief constables across England and Wales have been told to ignore a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights and carry on adding the DNA profiles of tens of thousands of innocent [...]
Recent Books….
Posted in Books, Capital Punishment, Christianity, Christology, Communion, Conflict, Consumer, Control, Deception, Empire, Ethics, Evangelical, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Postmodern, Punishment, Reconciliation, Theology, Violence, War, Wrath on Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Since I graduated with my BA last October, I have been determined to continue with my reading as much as possible. It is so easy to get burnt-out after having to read only parts of academic books and vow not to pick up another book. I must admit, I have read as widely as possible [...]
On recidivism and our responsibility by The OrthoCuban
Posted in Christianity, Christology, Crime, Culture, Good Theology, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Prison, Reconciliation, Reformation, Restoration, Revenge, Theology, Violence on Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.orthocuban.com/2009/05/on-recidivism-and-our-responsibility/
Father Orthoduck recently received a note in which a person commented on the problems that an ex-con faces, and there is significant truth in what that person said.
The problem is an offshoot of the popular religiosity subject which Fr. Obregón is beginning to discuss on his Orthocuban posts. In the USA officially we believe that [...]
What Church isn’t..
Posted in Christianity, Institutionalism, Integrity, Theology on Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.bradruggles.com/2009/06/25/what-church-isnt/
Church Isn’t About Protecting Christians From The World
Some of the church environments I experienced maintained that the church was a haven of peace and hope in a horrible, broken world. We were the sheep. They were the wolves. We had to protect our sheep by keeping the wolves out. We were “in the world but [...]
Renewal Movements And Reactionary Movements
Posted in Christianity, Church, Institutionalism, Integrity, Theology on Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The below article is from a long distance fellow Nazarene Minister, who is seeking to be used in building God’s Kingdom in Edinburgh, Scotland. We seem to be on the same wavelength often…..
I am working my way through a well written and thought provoking book at the moment called MISSION SHAPED QUESTIONS edited by Steven [...]
