Entries from April 2009
Management speak and the church
I was completely heartened to read the BBC's article on the ridiculous management jargon that infects the language all over the place. Fifty people tell of the meaningless phrases they hate the most. How very cheering to discover that I am not alone in hating this meaningless drivel. Happily, I work in an environment where More...
If everything was made by Microsoft…
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Is my faith real?
Regular readers here will know that I post from time to time about doubt – how healthy it is to express and explore doubt, how it is an essential part of a growing faith.
One of the things that is particularly difficult for leaders in Christian communities is to get enough space to let doubt work More...
Visual Arts at Greenbelt Festival
There are a hundred reasons to go to Greenbelt Festival. Music and talks/seminars are perhaps the most well known features of the Festival, but there's more, much more… theatre, community, development, poetry, literature… Visual Arts is an area that has developed in exciting ways at the Festival over the last few years. You could spend the More...
The Sunday Tree – part 2
Yesterday's post – a change proposal about cancelling the Sunday service – had interesting comments. I think, though, that to understand the piece, you have to note the opening line of the piece – "Say your church is dying…"
If your Sunday service is vibrant and life-giving, you don't need that particular change proposal. But if Sunday services are More...
Chopping down the Sunday Tree
I read this on Digging a Lot:
Say your church is dying. You have good buildings and some community ministry, but Sunday service is dwindling. It consumes a lot of your energy, both from your pastoral leader and your volunteers – to run sound and play music.
Change proposal: chopping down the Sunday tree.
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Chaplaincy in the Church Times
Cambridge is 800 years old this year, and the Church Times is celebrating us today with a feature on Chapels and Chaplaincy in the University. Among interviews with the Deans and Chaplains of Trinity, Johns and Emmanuel, she writes about me and Robinson Chapel. here's a snip:
"The red-brick chapel at Robinson is famous for More...
Moveable feast
Around this time of year I get asked a lot of times why Easter on a different day each year, when is Pentecost and what does it have to do with Easter, if Lent is supposedly 40 days long, why were there 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, and other such assorted questions. I More...
How much love is too much?
On a recent post I wrote about Todd Bentley's career, someone wrote in the comments that "divorce is always a failure". That's a common refrain in the Church, but while it might be true that divorce could sometimes be avoided, in some instances walking away from a bad marriage is an act of enormous courage, and – in More...
Resentment
“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
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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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