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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Following on from a little bit of McLuhan a while ago..
that week someone who i didn’t really know very well asked to meet me for coffee to chat. they knew nothing of the experience i was having. but one of the things they said has stuck with me since -
you don’t fit and that’s your [...]
my favourite propaganda so far… (ht)
A little bit of an unusual gig last night.. Beth Rowley headlining in Oran Mor, supported earlier in the evening by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Both were exceptional.. two amazing voices!
some little scribbles from my notepad:
different questions | having the same “grammar” but different content/meaning, it’s at that point that the christian and [...]
we’ve only just moved in and then this happens…
One of the best (and funniest!) explanations of the credit crunch I’ve found…
No one remembers, word for word, all that was said in any lecture, or playing in amy piece. But if you understood it once, you now own new networks of knowledge, about each theme, and how it changes and relates to others. Thus, no one could remember Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony entire, from a single hearing. [...]
“A giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line after being blown away from a Swiss museum.”
(BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Inflatable faeces raises a stink )
Didn’t have any plans for this afternoon.. untill now..! Exhibited at the Zentrum Paul Klee till October…
UPDATE: In a stunning piece of undercover citizen journalism, and [...]
Just a regular night after church in the pub.. about two years ago?
Act of random connection:
Uisge Beatha (the pub’s name, the gaelic for whisky) = Water of life = John 7:37 – adds just another little layer of pentecost meaning.. (More out of a sense of coincidence than something to infer something out of!)
I was sitting drinking Rivella (carbonated diluted milk serum.. tastier than it sounds!) on our wee balcony (the sun appeared this weekend!) trying to scribble down a thought i had.. and then read this, which captures the same idea except in a different field of thought entirely..
Theology is always a network; more precisely it is [...]
I first caught wind of this guy through a foot note or two from “How (not) to speak of God” by Pete Rollins and a couple of posts by Shane at FakeRepublic.. however trying to find his books in Bern is a little bit hard.. I suspect they’re sufficiently mindboggling in english, never mind trying [...]
