Entries Tagged as 'Theology Thoughts'
Image of God
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalised behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries. But there is far more than our usefulness and our reputation, where we’ve been and [...]
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Start of the week Round Up
December 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
In the absence of my tradition of doing an end of the week round up for the last few weeks due to various technical faults (a case of the bad workman blaming his tools a bit there) I thought I’d send you in the direction of a few things I picked up on today: Andy [...]
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To live Justly
November 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
“Thus to say that the church must pursue societal justice is certainly right, but it is not very informative. For justice needs to displayed and imaginatively construed by a people who have been formed to know that genuine justice derived from our receiving what is not due us. Such people serve the cause of justice [...]
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Burning Bush
November 14th, 2008 · Comments Off
"The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory"Kallistos Ware, Through the Creation to the Creator. London: Friends of the Cantre, 1997, p. 9. Quoted in C. Southgate, The Groaning of Creation. Kentucky: WJKP, 2008, p. 113. HT: Theological Scribbles
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Our value on Priests and Doctors
November 13th, 2008 · Comments Off
In a piece by Stanley Hauerwas, he uses one of his excellent anecdotes to illustrate the divide between medicine and religion. Interestingly enough the experience of the seminary student is exactly what I regret about how I approached my Theology degree, the consumerist influence in education stifles it, in retrospect I wish someone had told [...]
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21st Century Missions – Trevin Wax
November 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
To continue our 21st Century Missions series, Trevin Wax who blogs over at Kingdom People has been good enough to write the fourth response in the series that has dealt with the approach to finance in mission. You can find the rest of the posts from the series so far here. I asked Trevin to [...]
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We want people who know how to express authentic need
November 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
"Every Sunday we had Eucharist, prayers from the congregation, and a noon meal for the neighborhood. When the usual congregation would pray, we would pray for the hungry in Ethiopia and for an end to the war in the Near East, and so on. Well, this bag lady started coming to church and she would [...]
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A Death in a Youth Group
November 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
Rachel and I, along with some family and friends worked for a Church here in Scotland for a couple of years, being involved with youth and community work, over that time we got to know most of the kids in the small village in which we lived, a select few we got to know very [...]
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The gospel frees us from the gods of this world
October 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
“So for example, the world is not increasingly secular. It is always secular, by definition, and the Church is here for the sake of this world. But it is not that society is secular while Christians are religious, but rather the other way around. All members of this secular society are propelled by unnameable forces, [...]
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Racist Theology?
October 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Race: A Theological Account: J. Kameron Carter: Books Appended to the end of my already long, must-read books is the above Race: A Theological account. Fortunately I am able to taste of the book through various blogs who have mentioned it and particularly Jesus Creed who have run a series on it. My interest in [...]
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