Posted in Anglican, church, theology on 25 June, 2008 | 23 Comments »
If you have not yet read Bishop Brian’s recent lecture on the Anglican Communion, it is well worth doing so. Plan time for it. It’s not one for multi-tasking.
It is one of the most sensible and interesting perspectives I’ve come across recently, and I want to recommend it rather than take issue [...]
Posted in church, theology on 30 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you missed Gene Robinson’s article in the The Times on what it means for him to be making vows in his relationship with his partner Mark, it is well worth reading.
It begins with a comment he lived to regret about always wanting to be a June bride. He said it in an unguarded [...]
Posted in photos, theology on 28 April, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today was not the best of days. A worrying pastoral situation or three… Awareness of things done and left undone. A sense of exhaustion when I was trying to prepare tonight’s bible study and a quite legitimate worry that this time I would not get away with it and could not fake [...]
Posted in normal life, theology on 18 April, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Well, Jenny’s room is ready, and Molly says it passes quality control.
The rest of the family also have a place to sleep. Now I just have to clean the floors for Finn and deal with all the churchy bits (booklets, sermon; messy sacristy which may get ignored again).
The experience of preparing for this visit [...]
Posted in church, theology, worship on 16 April, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of things that has happened through blogging is that I am more regularly in contact with — and generally aware of — people from other denominations. And when the blogs take me back to my North American roots, that means there’s plenty of room for envy of larger churches, a culture of tithing, [...]
Posted in learning, theology on 15 April, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Last night was another session of the bible study which I should have named ‘A Reckless Romp through the Old Testament’.
Reckless because we have been going too fast.
Reckless because so much depends on the overview given in week one, and not everyone was there.
Reckless because I am fascinated by the OT, but it is not [...]
Posted in theology on 29 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A bit of theology with your morning coffee?
There is an article worth reading by Simon Barlow in Ekklesia. (thanks to Thinking Anglicans)
it is popularly supposed… that the post-Enlightenment world has pretty much reached the end of God-talk. In reality, however, we may be only just scrabbling to get out of the kindergarten.
Posted in church, theology on 7 March, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Last year, I came home from Diocesan Synod and wrote a post called feminism 101. Well, it’s that time of year again.
Only this time it is more complicated (those of you au fait with American course titles will realize we’re in ‘first level - honours’ now.) This year at synod there was [...]
Posted in blog, theology on 3 March, 2008 | 4 Comments »
… that my computer knew how to spell Henotheism.
How unlikely.
Posted in learning, prayer, recipies, theology on 1 February, 2008 | 5 Comments »
sometimes, the thing that seems selfish is necessary.
rare birds are worth pursuing.
it doesn’t always matter whether people understand.
on reading Luke through, one wonders why the documentary hypothesis took so long.
The start of Luke is wonderfully gracious. As pain and conflict increase, it gets wordier, more didactic and tries harder to explain. (’all [...]
