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A little info about something happening just around the corner in Glasgow:
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on church, mission, worship + culture with Jonny Baker (CMS)
Friday 27th November – 5pm
The Crypt, Wellington Church, University Avenue, Glasgow
Jonny Baker is one of the best known Christian bloggers in the English speaking world. He brings a wealth of experience in Youth Work, [...]

Rowan Williams speaking at the RSA – available as MP4 or WMV

I’m consistantly impressed with the quality of Rowan William’s youtube reflections on the church year.. it’s appropriate for the medium, and there’s been a bit more than the conventional “ehmm.. I suppose we’ll upload the sermon” approach to using  social media. Still waiting for him to begin twittering though..!
It’s interesting to watch the little trend of [...]

Just finished watching “Trouble in Amish Paradise” a BBC2 documentary about two families on the edge of the Amish religious establishment. An interesting insight into hermeneutics, culture, instituitionalism and all that jazz – Foucault could have a field day. (apologies for agricultural pun..)
Well worth a watch (available on iplayer for only two more days..)
From the [...]

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 [...]

So — “Christianity” founded on fear of “Fundamentalism,” what is that? Christianity powered by fear of “Liberalism,” what is that?

Richard Hall’s insightful post is developed further by Bishop Alan… both are well worth reading..

Doxology is not a hymn to be sung but a life to be lived.
[From The Church’s Language « Inhabitatio Dei]
 

N.T. Wright: In Christian theology, such phrases regularly act as “portable stories”—that is, ways of packing up longer narratives about God, Jesus, the church, and the world, folding them away into convenient suitcases, and then carrying them about with us. Shorthand enable [sic] us to pick up lots of complicated things and carry them around [...]

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 [...]