May 13, 2010
Pleased to say I have a number of speaking engagements now in June, July and August including Greenbelt which will be fun, see the speaking section of my website.
I am also now in the final editing stage on my new book on new monasticism for Paraclete Press in the States, and will be seeking to [...]
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January 11, 2010
Well its now a new year, and I am now well on the way to completing the manuscript for my next book exploring New Monasticism, which I am writing for Paraclete to be submitted by the end of February 2010.
Writing this book has really helped me think quite deeply about this important model of church, [...]
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July 15, 2009
Last Thursday, I did my first lecture using skype to Ordinands training within an American Lutheran Seminary called Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. The original plan was for me to fly out, but illness prevented this. But the result was stunning. They had kitted out a lecture room with microphones, projectors and lighting so that [...]
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July 4, 2009
It is not often I read a book that gets me excited but this new book by Pete Ward really did in this book Participation & Mediation. In this great book Pete unpacks in well reasoned and analytical form the journey he went on from Youth Worker to Practical Theologian. This is the same journey [...]
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June 26, 2009
Last Wednesday, Jon Oliver, (author and training Ordinand for Pioneer Ministry on placement with Moot) led our Quest Evening, designed to explore biblical texts and open them up as Stanley Hauerwas says to ‘an interpretative community’. Well we looked at John 4:1-42 and the Samaritan Woman at the well.
This text is always challenging and beautiful. [...]
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June 6, 2009
I have been listening to some of the words of John Maine on Christian Prayer and Meditation, and found these wise words on prayer and the Trinity.
We know from the doctrine of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, that the fullness of God is to be found in our own hearts. We know that the [...]
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December 5, 2008
One of the greatest criticisms of the mission shaped church report, is the lack of focus on the Kingdom of God. The danger, as the theologian John Hall has said, is that the Mission Shaped Church can become the Church Shaped Mission. Why? - because there is a difference between mission and [...]
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September 5, 2008
It is five years now since the Fresh Expressions initaitve brought some good news to those who were involved in or started emerging/fresh expressions of church within the Church of England. Many good things have happened:
1. Church Commissioners found money for start up monies for communities for 3 years distributed to Dioceses.
2. Discernment & training [...]
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August 14, 2008
Thinking about the Emerging Church and governance, I have been reflecting on how many groups have deconstructed things theologically and socio-culturally - but many have not deconstructed governance or power structures. This may be one of the reasons who there is not a 50:50 representation of women in Emerging & Fresh Expressions of Church.
One of [...]
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July 18, 2008
One of the reflections that keeps going round in my head since returning from the book tour, is the fixation in the Anglican Church in England concerning who is in and who is out. I have been really concerned how people are currently more concerned with continuing traditions v new traditions, rather than thinking about [...]
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