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Archive for February, 2009
“Persecution”? – Oh, I don’t think so!
There has been a mini-media storm here in the UK cultivated by a number of Christian figures and organisations claiming that “we” [Christians] are persecuted in Britain. Um . . . er. . . . yeah. . . .not so much, no. When I consider that Chinese Christians are imprisoned, Indian Christians are murdered, and [...]
Around the World – In 80 Faiths
It seems the TV channels are competing to pack the airwaves with religion lately. Perhaps its related to the upwelling of militant atheism and cooky creationists; maybe its something else. But over the past few weeks Rev. Pete Owen Jones’ series on various faith traditions and their rituals has been on BBC. You can watch [...]
Christianity A History On Channel 4
Over the past few weeks Channel 4 has offered a series they call “Christianity A History” where different personalities from different perspectives explore a particular element of Christian history. The series began with Howard Jacobson’s look at “Jesus the Jew”. Michael Portillo’s installment examines the interplay between the church and the Roman empire. Robert Beckford [...]
Web Church
I’ve stumbled across two articles this week related to Ekklesia 2.0 (a long running topic here) which are worth a read – and I hope, some discussion. The first is from Christian Today reporting on a recent meeting on “Web Church” such as St. Pixels a project of the Methodist Church in Britain, and iChurch [...]
Evolution Weekend 2009
We are “signatories” to the Clergy Letter Project – an effort started by Michael Zimmerman of Butler University to give voice to believers (not just Christians) who think that the war over evolution and faith is misguided to say the least. I should add that Michael would like to see more OC/IC representatives on the [...]
Make Disciples of All Men
There has been a small flood of articles on “conversion” in today’s religious news round-up. The two that caught my eye are a BBC report (here) on the Church of England’s consideration of a motion re-emphasising its explicit aim of converting people to Christianity; and Andrew Brown’s post (here on Guardian CIFBelief) reflecting on “evangelisation” [...]
How to Use Twitter With OC/IC Theoblogging
When I first encountered Twitter over a year ago, I frankly thought it was a naff invasion of privacy and walked away. I’ve since done some reading, observing, and re-thinking and . . . well. . . I’m “tentatively” changing my mind. Indeed I figured that it would be useful to give Twitter a fair [...]
Theology – The Voice of the Church
Theology is the dialogue between the tradition, and an individual’s experience of the faith. This is a slightly altered summary of Berger, Questions of Faith. It is nothing new – but gave me a moments thought yesterday. Those following on Twitter/Facebook will know about this. Today – however, I was struck by the idea of [...]
The Spiritual Life – Backbone of Community?
Last week Lyngine commented: “I’m leaning towards the idea that it may hinge on teaching/helping individual clergy and laity to cultivate a strong, grounded spiritual life and how to sustain that as an OC/IC priest or lay person in the midst of isolation—ministry then flows from that—-if the strong spiritual/religious grounding isn’t there or can’t [...]