church and the internet
Church Times blog reports on church websites, and discovers that half the churches in England have no useful web presence.
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Brian McLaren – a New kind of Christianity
Brian McLaren’s new book is about to be released. It’s good … I got to read it a while back and wrote some recommendations for it. Brian is particularly good at identifying those issues within religious expression where the cultural accretions mask what’s good about spirituality – so much so that the religious epxression of More...
candlemas
Today is Candlemas. This is the day when the church remembers the Presentation in the Temple – the day that Mary and Joseph went to the Temple to give thanks for their new born baby boy – something that is echoed in modern day dedication ceremonies and baptisms.
But the Presentation was also a “purification ritual”, More...
nunc dimittis
yesterday was the nearest Sunday to Candlemas (more on that tomorrow) so we read Luke 2.22-40. When Jesus was presented, Simeon, an elderly Temple prophet, identified him as the longed-for Messiah, and Luke records his words:
Now, Lord, you let your servant go in peace: your word has been fulfilled. My own eyes have seen the More...
Dawkins’ God
Here’s a piece about the God Richard Dawkins believes in not believing in.
I don’t believe in Pat Robertson’s God either. But it’s odd, I think, that Dawkins is so insistent that everyone else must choose between believing or not believing in the same monstrous caricature. The fundamentalist account of God is monstrous, but it’s More...
secularists and God
Dave Walker in top cartoon form here
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Solas Festival – June 2010
news of a new festival in Scotland has been on the grapevine for some months. Now the Website has gone live.
I guess it’s a cousin of Greenbelt, but only laterally related, and it clearly has its own stamp. Lots of theatre, family-friendly, and there are blue skies on the website, so clearly good weather More...
Bill Gates vaccine donations
Yesterday it was reported that Steve Jobs brought the tablets down from the mountain.
Today Bill Gates hits the headlines with an announcement about his latest philanthropic project:
…the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is to make the largest ever single charitable donation with a pledge of $10 billion (£6 billion) for vaccine work over the next More...
Giving it Up
It’s not long now till Lent. Have you got your Lent book yet? There is plenty of good stuff out there…
My Lent book for 2010 is called Giving it Up. It’s a book of 47 short chapters, so you can read one every day through Lent. This is the theme: most people associate Lent with More...
iPad iPitaph
it’s a bit soon for an epitaph… but Malcolm Guite wittily celebrates the iPad with an iPitaph, noting that as Steve Jobs “…brings the Tablets down from the mountain…” the whole affair is surrounded with religious language.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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