Entries from May 2008
Delta Spirit KCRW Show
May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Delta Spirit played live on KCRW recently, not living stateside or having the commitment to stay up late into the night to listen to it over the Internet I was glad KCRW posted both Audio and Video on their site. Watch the full thing below:
Tags: Music
Coldplay do their thing
May 18th, 2008 · Comments Off
Somehow Coldplay have managed to weave themselves a magic carpet again. At first hearing I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about their new single Violet Hill, it all sounded a bit confused, like Chris Martin was going through some teenage angst and turned up the volume on his electric guitar and then swaying back into his minor [...]
Tags: Music
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 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts
Mid Week round up
May 13th, 2008 · 3 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 · Comments Off
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. [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts
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: Christian Living · Church · Justice · Miscellaneous · My Life · Theology Thoughts
Monday Morning Quotes
May 5th, 2008 · Comments Off
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 first post of Scot [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Hat Tips · My Life
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 Francis: "We must never [...]
Tags: Blogging · Church · Hat Tips · Theology Thoughts
