latest writing
Second Thoughts – an article in The Christian Century
Morning – an essay on College Chaplaincy in spirituality journal Quiet Spaces
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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...
In an increasingly secularised society few people have a good working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. The Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives some background to the text of the Bible, and shows how the stories have become enmeshed in Western culture. Adam and Eve, the ten plagues of Egypt, The Prodigal Son and Mary Magdalene all feature - along with how the Bible has influenced everyone from Shakespeare to Monty Python, and Caravaggio to Banksy. 
Giving It Up explores the Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something, and suggesting instead that what we need to give up is our existing ideas about God. With a daily readings for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, it follows the heroes of the Bible who had to give up their own too-small ideas about God.
This is Maggi’s bestselling book of daily readings for each day of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Advent is the beginning of the Church year, and marks the anticipation of the coming Messiah. These readings explore how beginnings and endings in our own lives are illuminated by the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming.
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Looking at lunchtime I’m a 73-scoring progressive, apparently
Ugh. On nearly every question, I found myself wanting a ‘None of the above’ option – not because there were problems of detail in the options closest to my opinion, but because *all* of their options seemed to sit on a line that ran nowhere near my position. Very odd. Thanks for the link, though.
89. I too which there were ‘none of the above’ options. I also found its referring to ancient Israel as ‘primative’ quite annoying. The whole quiz is too Christian-centric.
I came in at 77 but agree that a “non of the above” would have helped.
80, whisper that quietly amongst my evangelly baby friends… the silly thing is that I would still consider myself evangelical and yet, I suspect, my answers would be used by some that I’ve backslidden into liberalism…
only goes to show how silly labels are I guess!
I liked the fact that after scoring a rather progressive 86, it gave me two references that would explore “how we can know whether our Bible is truly the Word of God” and “why God’s Word provides what we need, no matter our situation or struggles.” I wonder if there was an agenda there..?