July 25, 2010
Back in the Spring I met up with Tim Nash to explore the whole emerging and fresh expressions of church initiative in the UK, and to explore more deeply my book the Becoming of G-d. They have made a great podcast out of the discussions and included a book review, so do check this out [...]
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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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October 25, 2008
I was reading the dissertation of a friend yesterday, and was struck how much science and religion now meet in the area of the relational. In modernity, everything was solid and seperate, but now in postmodernity and with the outbreak of quantum mechanics, everything has become much more relational. As my friend Steve Dancause said:
I [...]
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August 3, 2008
I have been reflecting a while, why the emerging church sees its international ‘connectivity’ as a ‘conversation’. It is an approach to relatedness that has much criticism. However today, I can see how this concept again relates to a Trinitarian informed connectiveness. Some will know from my two books, that I have hypothesised that there [...]
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