Oh I do hope so…
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Category: God, Faith & Church
Communication Class
Today was the first of my new class at ICC on Communication. It’s a first year class on the Youth Work and Theology course so Today was one of their first classes! We talked about (well I talked most) the internet and some tools for keeping in touch with their young people like Bebo and Read More …
Harvest
I’m leading worship in Clydebank on Sunday, and it’s Harvest. It’s an all age service and this is the first time I’ve led worship there. Any thoughts? Ideas? HELP!!! My past experiences of harvest services have been a little ‘unreal’. They tend to be jolly occasions when we sing songs about sewing and ploughing and Read More …
Small Rituals
Danah Boyd has written a thought provoking piece about social scripts and the place of ritual following her experience at her friend and mentor’s recent memorial service. It’s a great exploration of how ritual is so important to us and it resonated deeply. We followed a home liturgy over Easter this year and it was really Read More …
Dullness
Mike Yaconelli wrote in his book ‘Dangerous Wonder’: The most critical issue facing Christians is not abortion, pornography, the disintegration of the family, moral absolutes, MTV, drugs, racism, sexuality or school prayer. The critcal issue today is dullness. We have lost our astonishment. The Good News is no longer good news, it is ok news. Christianity Read More …
John Orr blog!!!
For ages I’ve been trying to get John Orr to blog. I’ve known John for years and he has been on a very interesting journey from giving up gainful employment to become a student of Divinity and potential minister. That’s interesting enough in itself but I would love to hear more about John’s theological journey. Read More …
Christian Resources
Q: How do you know a fish is a Christian? A: It has a car stuck to it! I’ve spent all week in a very large room full of people trying to sell things to Christians or offer themselves and/or their organisation to support Christians. I started this post with the fish joke because one Read More …