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A while back, Howard Dobson interviewed me for a Church House podcast, and I forgot to put the link up here.
Here I am talking to Howard about writing, art, Genesis, and other things, and reading a short piece I wrote about Genesis 22. (My interview starts approx half way through the podcast).
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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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Thanks for this. The thought of “influencing and provoking change” is helpful to me as someone inspired by a lot of EC ideas, but currently sitting in a non-emerging church context….
i concur with mark completely – pete rollins and i were saying just that ‘in the arms of jesus’ at Gb…
i think the emergent church is a sign post pointing on beyond itself…
yes yes yes
Thanks for the reminder Maggi. The quote has remained with me too. I’ve added a link to this post in a comment I’ve left on my latest post.
I can’t resist saying that this is one of the reasons behind setting up BEYOND (which seems to be an entirely appropriate name given the discussion going on here!) which Maggie has just blogged about. One of our objectives is to accelerate the rate of change in our area by producing provoking and creative events that are not just for those who are already in the emerging church mindset but can also become a resource for regular churches to help them to move on. The Fingermaze animation came out of one of our events but I have used it as part of a sermon in a regular church setting and people found it to be very powerful. It’s interesting to explore how the emerging church might be acting as a prophetic voice to the traditional church.