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 »
Comfort to Compassion
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Good Theology, Reconciliation, Restoration, Theology on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This nation is affluent and has more than it needs. The realization that what we have is a free gift can deepen our desire to share this gift with others who cry out for help. When we bless the fruits of the harvest, let us at least realize that blessed fruits need to be shared.
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Living Wittily: Walter Brueggemann – Bible teacher, man of prayer, spiritual upstart.
Posted in Christianity, Christology, Compassion, Contemplation, Good Theology, Integrity, Liturgy, Poetry, Prayer, Reconciliation, Restoration, Theology on Saturday, November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is one of Brueggemann’s prayers at the start of his Old Testament Theology class:
With you it is never “more or less”
We will be your faithful people -
more or less
We will love you with all our hearts -
perhaps
We will love our neighbour as ourselves -
maybe.
We are grateful that with you it is
never “more or less”
“perhaps” [...]
The Scandal of the Gospel
Posted in Christ, Christianity, Christology, Church, Freedom, Good Theology, Reconciliation, Theology, tagged Compassion, Holiness, Shalom, Justice, Theology, Christian, Church 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 [...]
New T. F. Torrance resources
Posted in Theology, tagged Theology on Monday, August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New T. F. Torrance resources: “The T. F. Torrance Fellowship has released the first issue of its new journal, Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. It’s available for free download, and this first issue features contributions by Ray Anderson, Paul Molnar, Alister McGrath, George Hunsinger, and others.
Meanwhile, Ashgate have released Myk [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Re-thinking The Lord’s Supper
Posted in Christianity, Christology, Communion, Emergent, Emerging, Good Theology, Holiness, Reconciliation, Restoration, Theology on Friday, July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.jesusmanifesto.com/2009/05/rethinking-the-lords-supper/
In a tragic twist of irony, the venue in the Christian faith that was intended to unify believers of diverse stripes and beliefs has actually divided and split the church in untold ways.
I’m referring to Communion. The Lord’s Supper. The Eucharist. The Table.
It goes by many names, and has been practiced many ways. It [...]
Sinners, all of us…
Posted in Christianity, Prison, Theology, Unity on Friday, July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://annedroid-annedroid.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-came-across-this-quote-from-eugene.html
I came across this quote from Eugene Peterson on a forum today and I think it’s so good I’ll nick it and post it here: "The churches of the revelation show us that Churches are not Victorian parlours where everything is picked up and ready for guests. They are messy family [...]
