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Twas the night before christmas,
And in every house,
Not a blogger was stirring,
w/neither keyboard nor mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimmney with care,
And the hush in blogosphere.
Went from here and to there…

In August this year, Greenbelt Festival hosted a conversation for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of doing something like Greenbelt in Scotland. So a second meeting took place in Perth in November to take things a step further.
So ‘The PROJECT‘ was born… an interim process of small, viral, organic events during 2009 & 2010, [...]

Caught a few Pete Rollins videos courtesy of Existential Punk this evening, and then my little youtube dander ended up on the paraclete press youtube channel.. a little treat with pete rollins, phylis tickle and brian mclaren.
a nice wee stroll!
if you have only time to watch one.. i’d go for this one..

Took my camera out today with me for the first time in ages.. popped along to Kelvingrove just in time to catch the Dumbartonshire Concert Band, had a quick look around again, popped into Montgomery’s for something to nibble on, and ended up watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” in the GFT.. a wonderful [...]

John and Olive Drane continue their reflections on Brian McLaren’s time in the UK, their final few phrases provide a good starting point for thinking:
One other thing we’ve been thinking about is the way Brian focused the atonement debate, with this question: what or who do we need to be saved from – from God [...]

Last night I went to hear the influential false teacher (!?) Brian McClaren speaking in Glasgow, along with plenty of others (Met up with some twitter folks beforehand too.. stewartcutler, jaythomas21 and headphonaught – that was fun!)

selected translations from the scribbles:
* riffing on the idea of reimagining the Kingdom of God (emmsy and stewart have [...]

Well worth taking some time out for Rowan.. those other things can wait..

Rowan Williams popped up today on Twitter, although given that on his profile he preferred to link to the wikipedia article about himself rather than his own official page up until an hour or two ago, and his eclectic choice of people he chose to follow I’m a little suspicious! (the guardian thinks so too!)

Talking about the emerging church or even using some special buzzwords can stir up quite a lot of emotions.. and it seems that Brian McLaren’s visit to Scotland won’t be much of an exception. However.. taking some inspiration from simon, headphonaught and stewart. I’d like to introduce my little contribution to dialog and peacemaking …

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