One

we’re one but we’re not the same, we’ve got to carry each other
Is how Bono puts it.
Unity.
Something the church is suposed to be famous for. Something that is supposed to characterise those who follow Jesus, and indeed demonstrate to others that we are followers of Jesus because we love each other. Unity is also as [...]

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Am I a liberal or is your God too small?

Hard to believe its almost a month since I last posted, although I have been keeping up the 365. Part of the lack of posting has been busyness and not actually making time to think, which I have missed, and too much time stuck at a computer. A few days back on the bus, [...]

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Women of the world unite! Free rice, and the poppy question continues…

Time for a quick round up of blogging action.
Crooked Shore has taken one (more) small step in the musings about poppies, and some of the attitutes towards wearing or not not wearing.
It’s all been kicking off in the blogosphere - at least in our little corner of it. Women. Women in the church most specifically. [...]

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poppies, flags and should churches celebrate Remembrance Sunday?

Now from the outset I want to say I have the utmost respect for those who have sacrificed and put their lives on the line for their country. I get a lump in my throat watching the veterans of the First and Second World Wars and hearing their stories. It outrages me that those who [...]

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So any women on the go?

I had to restrain a strong desire to punch an elderly relative for this comment at my gran’s funeral several years ago. Whether I had or not was irrelevant. In my moment of grief all she was interested in was my relationship status, not the fact I may have been upset. This is one of [...]

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Thoughts from a lonely prophet part two

A belated return to Walter Rauschenbusch.
“Christian morality finds its highest dignity and its constant corrective in making the aims of the kingdom of God the supreme aim to which all minor aims must contribute and from which they gain their moral quality. The church substituted itself for the kingdom of god and thereby put the [...]

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the lonely prophet speaks again

“Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children cannot reach“
the lonely prophet speaks again… listen well

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thoughts from a lonely prophet part one…

Walter Rauschenbusch (once referred to as a lonely prophet) is certainly not a name that trips off the tongue but this theologian was an important voice in the beginning of the 20th century. Several years pastoring a church beside the infamous ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ area of New York (Gangs of New York territory) left an indelible [...]

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