Entries from May 2008
kindness and generosity
Ian is in full flow on the hardness and inhumanity that can be fostered by a market-driven society. I like being called back regularly to consider what it is that makes us fully human.
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An Unequal Blessing
I had an email recently alerting me to "a great revival" going on in Lakeland, Florida at which (reportedly) people are being healed from profound health or physical problems, and a few (reportedly) have even been raised from the dead. My reaction was not spontaneous joy, but "I don't buy it." Not because I think miracles are absolutely impossible, but because I've come More...
High Flight
I spent large chunks of this weekend at the nearby (and totally brilliant) Duxford air museum. I’ve been there quite a lot of times in the last couple of years, following my son’s interest in planes, and for his benefit, have paid attention, and tried to remember the difference between one kind of plane and More...
God in a life behind schedule…
Increasingly, time pressures crowd out the leisurely pace that prayer seems to require. Communication with other people keeps getting shorter and more cryptic: text messages, email, instant messaging. We have less and less time for conversation, let alone contemplation. We have the constant sensation of not enough: not enough time, not enough rest, not enough More...
Make haste less slowly…
The hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, was asked—
Livings (Crown Patronage)
7. Robert Key (Salisbury) (Con): How many livings in the Church of England are under the patronage of the Crown; and how many of the incumbents of those livings are women. [204058]
The Second Church Estates Commissioner (Sir Stuart Bell): There are More...
Pentecost Novena
Someone asked me yesterday what the Pentecost Novena is. It’s the nine day period of watchful, waiting prayer between Ascension and Pentecost. I blogged about it here if you want the gen.
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Female scholars
Rose asked the other day in the comments to Female Bishops, "I am working on some studies, could you recommend your top two female N.T. scholars?"
New Testament isn’t really my area, so I have limited knowledge in this. But I do eat my lunch at least once a week with Professor Morna Hooker, whose More...
another take on Ascension…
(These are the notes for my homily today. The story in the middle is "nicked" – Someone sent it to kathryn, Kathryn gave it to me, I rewrote it freely and sent it back to Kathryn, and we have both now reworked it for our sermons. The original, I believe, is a story by Edward More...
Noah’s Nuggets???
A while back I posted some marvellous "wash away your sins" soap. I never got round to getting some – I’m now kicking myself for not remembering to buy a bottle on a recent trip to the States.
Now I discover*, amazing but true , that you can buy a totally Biblical treat, and munch More...
Female bishops
The Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, recently announced that Bishop Matthews will be their new Bishop. The Anglican Church of Australia announced her first female bishop last month.
Meantime, the good old Church of England continues in seemingly endless chicken-licken style discussion. In my more bleak moments it makes me think of Nero fiddling More...
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author musician theologian
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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