Entries from March 2009
choose your critics
I was talking last week with a colleague in Cambridge about how seemingly chance events and off the cuff remarks can guide the course of your whole life. A comment or a suggestion here or there, a little encouragement or a biting criticism, can have a huge effect on someone else's decisions.
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Emerging Church, fragmentation
The so-called emerging church has seemed at different times to be one thing or many things. There have been plenty of discussions online and at places like Greenbelt, Moot, Blah etc., as to whether there can be an "emerging theology" or whether Emerging Church is a cohesive thing, or just a description of lots of More...
easy as eggs
I began reading Don't Eat Alone a few years ago. Blog-friend Milton is a chef, and writes about food and life in a way that just makes the world seem a bigger place. In particular, he keeps a Lenten Journal each year, which is an interesting read given that Lent is often associated with More...
Picture Hope
When I was a child, I had a "pen friend". This was back in the day, before email and PCs were even invented, and if you wanted to communicate across the globe you had to write letters. My school connected up with a school in the Middle East and I was given the adress of More...
“I don’t believe in an interventionist God…”
…so sings Nick Cave. I don't believe in one either, although I regularly feel I'm regarded by the average churchgoer as a heretic for saying so. I believe in God, but not in a fix-it, Santa Claus God.
I'm happy to see that the Archbishop of Canterbury also believes "an interventionist God" to be an unchristian and unbiblical concept:
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when I grow up…
"Seeing the other person as gift, striving to see God within them, does not make people less irritating. It does help me grow up…"
Bishop Alan challenges some of the weaknesses of the age in a post on the Benedictine vow of stability…
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Lady Day
No time to post any thoughts for Lady Day … but here's the great Fra Angelico who rightly renders me speechless in any case.
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Call Waiting
There's a weekend course on in Cambridge next month specifically for young people (aged 16-19) who are interested in ministry – a chance to look further at what ministry is, and how to develop the gifts you have in the service of the church and the world.
Of course, ministry is not the sole preserve More...
Women in the house of Bishops
The Revision Committee has been announced. These people will work on the next stage of the draft legislation.
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Science and God
The Atheist, the Sceptic, the Platonist, the Believer and the Pantheist: why quantum physics can be compatible with spiritual belief.
Bernard D'Espagnat, winner of the 2009 Templeton Prize
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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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