Entries from May 2008
Slavoj Zizek on Christian Conusmerism
May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Absolutely rushed off my feet at work today but managed to read this excellent Zizek quote which was related to Christian Consmerism in an excellent post by Ben Myers in his review of "Rapture Ready!" As Slavoj Žižek has observed, the logic of late capitalism presses towards the commodification of a niche identity for its own […]
Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts · Worship
Secular Understandings of Church
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Some intresting thoughts here on whether reformed christians
are more likely to be introvert whilst ‘missional’ types are more likely to
be extroverts. Let me know what you think about that? Something I have
been thinking about recently is how when we disect the Church we sound
very much like we think secular sociology explains and in fact defines […]
Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts
Mid Week round up
May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Probably the first of its kind in the UK, Worship Central, a really superb ministry from Holy Trinity Brompton, has worked with Kings College London to produce an MA in contemporary worship. Tearfund have begun publishing Daily prayer podcasts, though somehow whilst moving house last week I lost my iPod!Trevin Wax writes well on the subject […]
Tags: Apple · Entertainment · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Technology · Theology Thoughts
Of Cross and Resurrection
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
As my other posts are loosing steam, and the list of HT’s are getting longer than one post, I flailingly post this excellent quote from John Howard Yoder: The relationship between the obedience of God’s people and the triumph
of God’s cause is not a relationship of cause and effect but one of
cross and resurrection. - John […]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts · Walkin the Walk
Thanks to the Internet
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
"We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million
typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous · Technology · Web 2.0
Childrens Ministry and doing things anyway
May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
We had dinner with our friends Graeme and Kate Young the other day, it was nice to catch up with them. Graeme is probably one of the most ‘experienced’ Christians I know, if that is indeed a catergory distinction and is one of the few Christian ministers who has taken seriously and continues to explore […]
Tags: Church · Justice · Miscellaneous · My Life · Theology Thoughts · Walkin the Walk
Monday Morning Quotes
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I have the day off work today which is great except I am in the library studying Barth’s soteriology and have been the whole weekend, but I shoudl hopefully be finished today as I have to spend the rest of the week packing up the house and moving down to Aberdeen.
Today the […]
Tags: Hat Tips · My Life · Walkin the Walk
End of Week Round up
May 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Hopefully you’ll find something of interest here:
- Johnny Baker flagged up a couple of interesting ebooks about management for people in creative jobs and related that church planting can be considered within this field.
- Jamie wrote the best sentences Ive read all week in one of his posts about […]
Tags: Blogging · Church · Hat Tips · Theology Thoughts
Hows everything going
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here we are again at the end of the week, I had a slightly premature move last night into the flat I’m moving into from my house, my flatmate Willy (good scottish name) is going away for the weekend and I have a mountain of work to do for uni and need to spend my […]
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Has photography lost its art?
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have to be honest, recently I have been pointing and shooting with digital cameras, I have been choosing quantity over quality, when it comes to photography less has definatly not meant more.I really enjoy photography but with the age of cheap digital memory I have discovered the ability to take cheap shots (thanks, I […]
Tags: Technology · travel
