Archive for the ‘ MTh Applied Theology ’ Category
During the summers of 2002-05 I was leading a team that established a summer event youth cafe in Hazlemere, High Wycombe: called Fresh Cafe.Some of the agenda for that first cafe was to have no evangelistic content, despite there being about 40% non-church-attending attendance. God had some slightly different agenda and out of going with what [ READ MORE ]
We know very little about most people with whom we interact in life, and the few things we do know about them we also find in others. Hence, they remain for us not much more than comparable bearers of those properties. It is therefore difficult for us to treat them consistently as irreplaceable persons. They [ READ MORE ]
As a MTh group we were encouraged to watch the video Romero, which is the story of the conscientisation of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador. Basically – we can’t appreciate how easy we have it! [ READ MORE ]
Went to hear Elaine Graham (prof of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester) at Regents park Tuesday night talking about her recent book co written with Heather Walton and Francis Ward. She was brilliant and was very fair in her presentation about where her thoughts were and where the limitations and the lacking [ READ MORE ]
A choice question since this is the title of the MTh I am currently reading for!! But not so obvious as it seems at first… Surely there is no such thing as ‘pure’ theology – is there! Can we really talk about GOD outside of our interpretive cultural framework of time, language, space, hope? I don’t think [ READ MORE ]
Think about discipleship in our culture Reflect on my current research projects General Practical Theology musings