Just a bit of a plug for any bloggers out there who read this and want to link to us - I’d be more than happy to add to our current (pitiful) blogroll at the bottom of the screen. Apart from anything else, I’m a self-absorbed attention seeker, so I want as many people to [...]
Newsweek has reported on the story of A. J. Jacobs (previously famous for reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one year), who has spent the past year trying to follow every rule written in the Bible. So as well as the nice obvious ones like not lying or coveting, he was growing a beard, [...]
On our first foray into some proper discussion on Amateur Theology, we threw around the idea of at what point of theological disagreement should you leave a church, which prompted Ron (my father) to tell his story:
Back in what seems like an earlier life, my young family and I were in a church in a [...]
Prompted by my LifeGroup: what does the language of a corporate experience of God look like?
I think it’s quite a poorly developed area of communication for us.
In my experience, when we talk about what God’s doing, we talk about it from a first-person perspective: “something I’ve learned this week…”, “God told me…”, “my experience this [...]
Recent reading on this site, and also at Rick’s blog, has got me wondering why emergent thinking appears so threatening to many church leaders, some of whom in their own heyday were considered quite radical themselves. This is just one guy’s perspective (mine) and I’m not too fragile, so feel free to unleash intellectual [...]