Just read this at the Mustard Seed House blog – article by Christine Sine about living in community, which resonates with my thinking… seeing community as essential to mission and discipleship:
Noemie did not grow up with a Christian background, but since her time in DC where she had opportunity to speak at length on how [...]
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I’ve been trying to blog about The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne for a while now… but somehow every time I think about it I can never really sum it up. But that is probably because it is such a simple book about the story of a community of hopefuls [...]
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I suffered from a post-viral fatigue illness for a number of years and despite many visits to many doctors I got very little helpful medical advice about what I could do to get better. With no quick fix and no drug that can be prescribed, doctors often just don’t know what to do… and as [...]
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Faithworks, Livability Community Mission and Tearfund are hosting a free discussion evening with Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution (which i’ve just read and will post about soon) and co-founder of The Simple Way community in Philadelphia.
The event is at 7:30pm on Wednesday 30 April 2008 at Church.co.uk, 1a [...]
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Ten years ago the global debt crisis campaign was thrust into the mainstream as thousands of people formed a big human chain in Birmingham – ten years on and the the anniversary is being marked to:
CELEBRATE ten years since the Birmingham human chain
DISCOVER the impact of debt cancellation so far
DEMAND a lasting solution to the [...]
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I recently borrowed Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher from the Crowther Centre at CMS – it’s a great read and I flew through and have been meaning to mention it for a while…
The book follows Tim Butcher as he attempts to retrace the steps of Henry Morton Stanley [...]
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