culture
So Tired – some post-vote, not particularly comic, doggerel
I’m not going to get into all the ins and outs of synodical votes this week. It’s all very sad, and for a whole range
22nd November 2012
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worldwide church
CHURCH
When the living have to bury their own dead
Church-planters probably never even consider factoring this in when they start. That was certainly the case for some friends of mine in Turkey. For who
7th November 2012
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
The dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry 3: The Past
No man is an island entire of itself said the prophetic priest-poet of old. Modernism and its western offspring, individualism, have done their utmost to prove
2nd August 2012
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
The dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry 2: The Future
Having speculated a little about how the prevailing winds of modernist culture affect our perceptions of the present, I now want to think about how
24th July 2012
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20th Century
The dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry 1: The Present
There is a clear counter-argument for every point I want to make here. In fact, I sort of agree with every counter-argument myself. But I
18th July 2012
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All Souls Langham Place
Giving in the Chain Reaction of Divine Grace (2 Cor 9)
The next section in our 2 Corinthians mini-series presented a particular challenge – because the whole section is about giving (in particular, Paul’s encouragement of
6th June 2012
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All Souls Langham Place
All Souls’ Archive Crowd-sourcing Experiment: Can You Help Us Out?
What makes a good archive or library? Well, as I’ve written elsewhere, I think there are at least 3 key ingredients. Excellent, unique and desirable
30th April 2012
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ARTS
Crisis in the Confessional from Graham Greene’s Human Factor
Maurice Castle is the wary protagonist of Graham Greene’s 1978 novel, The Human Factor. He works on the Africa desk for the British secret service. He
27th March 2012
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apologetics
To pund or not to pund? The baits and traps of tweology
It is a great sadness to me that the word ‘pund’ does not exist. This is no doubt because the English ‘pundit’ is actually a corruption of
6th February 2012
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
Power and Weakness, Control and Care within the corporate
We’ve carried on wending our merry way though Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (from which I’ve posted before) where there have been gems and provocations aplenty. This week,
31st January 2012
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21st Century
Perfect potboiler plots? Rely on centuries-old Ecclesiastical Conspiracies
So… you want to write a runaway bestseller in 2012? Hoping to fill the cabin luggage of air-travellers the world over? Well, here is just
10th January 2012
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20th Century
The Saigon School of Missiology and Graham Greene’s QUIET AMERICAN
It is not just the victims of imperialism who easily identify its sins and blindspots. Those who have wielded and then lost empires are quick
4th January 2012
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