I’m reading some of the people who are writing about Emerging & Missional Church for my MA Dissertation, including Alan Hirsch. He quotes a statistic that says only 4% of Southern Baptist churches will plant a daughter church – 96% will not ‘give birth’. By analogy, if 96% of women did not have children it […]
Some of my friends joke that I can get the word ‘metanarrative’ into any conversation. Probably true. Warning: this series of posts may have an overdose of the word ‘metanarrative’! This first post in my metanarrative series will try to define what I’m talking about for those who don’t try to slot it in to […]
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHglfyQOd2s Kutiman is an Israeli musician/DJ/VJ who I first heard of when I came across Thru You, where he takes videos from youtube and remixes them to make a whole album of tracks. Thru Jerusalem, the video above was fully recorded by Kutiman in Jerusalem and then mixed to create a tour through some of […]
When you’re writing an essay with a word count to meet, how your word processor counts the words matters. LibreOffice seems to count a lot higher than MS Word, meaning your task at meeting the word count is much harder. This is probably because of the way it treats ‘floating punctuation marks’ like a dash […]
Unless you understand that Jesus invites us through faith in him… to actually live in the Kingdom of God now, there will not be a basis for discipleship and transformation. Dallas Willard, http://www.outofur.com/archives/2011/05/ur_video_dallas.html As the conversation goes on to say, faith in Jesus is not about a new life after death, but death in our life […]
Ubuntu 11.04 (AKA Natty Narwhal) eliminates all kinds of Gnome Applets – most of which I didn’t use or need. One that I realised that I miss today is the proxy switcher applet. When I’m at college (LST), I need to switch to use their proxy – and back again at home. I want that to […]
Krish Kandiah has been musing on Bin Laden’s death and how scripture has been used by Christians responding to it on Twitter. If we are not careful Bible verses become bumper stickers – ways of publicly labeling our beliefs. Or worse we end up not trying to seek God’s will but rather draw on the […]
There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Dad, give me my share of the company.’ So he divided his business between the sons and, taking nothing more than a warm coat, left them. The younger son squandered all he had been given – drink, drugs and dubious […]
I woke up this morning to the headline “Osama Bin Laden is dead”. President Obama declares “Justice has been done”. Has it? It sounds like the kind of justice Holywood loves, the kind of redemptive violence that makes good action move. It’s the type of justice that has been doing the rounds since ancient Babylon. And […]
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 […]