Posts Tagged ‘ Discipleship ’
If I’m towards right about ‘journey’ being a zombie category and it is no longer a useful idea for thinking about our ongoing relationship with Christ, then what is? Most of my thoughts here start with a comment from Brian McLaren at an Emergent conference in 2003 (I think). During a question time [ READ MORE ]
I have recently re-read Gordon Lynch’s Losing my Religion [I'll be reviewing this else where] in which he describes his own move away from evangelicalism. There is a huge implicit assumption throughout the book that everyone involved in evangelicalism will want to move away and continue their journey elsewhere: whether that be within a Christian [ READ MORE ]
I went to see many of the headliners at greenbelt this year. Athlete were great, Martyn Joseph with Stuart Anderson was brilliant and then there was Rob Bell. It is not at all that Rob was not good, he was, as expected, engaging, funny, full of compassion and very clear, but two things disturbed me. [ READ MORE ]
We begin Passiontide today, the week before Holy Week, the last week of Lent. There is a whole bunch of getting ready for this huge event on Good Friday. Although of course this Good Friday event does not make sense without Easter Day. The death of Jesus does not mean much by itself, it only [ READ MORE ]
Unlike lots, I like Trinity Sunday. More particularly I like preaching / teaching / talking on Trinity Sunday, as I am tomorrow. Although every doctrinal statement is an interim statement, since we only know through a glass darkly, we can discern between good theology and bad theology. Good theology is harder to identify, primarily because [ READ MORE ]
Think about discipleship in our culture Reflect on my current research projects General Practical Theology musings