Something I’ve been thinking about for a few days and Peter Rollins goes and blogs about it before me! He argues (and I agree) that ‘faith’ has come to be about thinking something is true. It’s used of things that we do not have enough empirical evidence to know for sure and yet we are […]
At the Easter Vigil, the journey along the paths of sacred Scripture begins with the account of creation. This is the liturgy’s way of telling us that the creation story is itself a prophecy. It is not information about the external processes by which the cosmos and man himself came into being. The Fathers of […]
Today is Resurrection Sunday – Jesus is alive and we’re just barely beginning to understand what that means and how it touches our lives. I didn’t hear much of today’s sermon, thanks to Little Rogers, but the text from Luke 24 got me thinking – “He is not here, he is risen”. Yesterday was Holy Saturday, […]
I travelled into London for “An Evening with Rob Bell”, organised by Greenbelt. I tweeted a few things while I was there and I’ll stick them all at the bottom of this post. One question and the responses have stuck in my mind particularly. I was chuckling along as Bell avoided “pinning his colours to […]
In John 10, Jesus is explaining his shepherd care for Israel. They don’t understand, so he changes metaphor: Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep… They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come […]
Get this: 1937, a Russian Orthodox theologian in France: Is there a ladder between heaven and earth and do the angels of God ascend and descend upon it? Or is this ladder only a convenient emergency exit for those who wish to be “saved” by forsaking the world? Is our Lord’s Ascension into heaven the […]
The big ‘Christian’ story of 2011 so far has been the release of Love Wins, Rob Bell’s new book. Twitter followers (@jonrogersuk) will have seen my tweets from each chapter, which are all below. No doubt there’ll be loads more things for me to blog about the book and my responses to it since my […]