re:mixing our approach

The recent blah…, subverting the empire, with Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmat looking at their book Colossians Re:mixed, was a good day…
Mark Berry gives a good summary of the day… which really followed the flow of the book, which I’ve mentioned before.
The morning sessions helpfully explored Colossians in the contexts of Israel (The Jewish [...]

The ‘why’ of living in community

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 [...]

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

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 [...]

Living as an ordinary radical?… A dialogue with Shane Claiborne

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 [...]

Brain Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat visiting CMS

I’ve mentioned Colossians Re:mixed before - it’s a great book. The authors Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat are visiting the UK in June - and CMS are organising three events with them.
You need to book a place - costs £20/£15 with lunch - more info and booking online at the following:
Manchester June 5 Birmingham June [...]

Easter images

It’s been a hectic but brilliant couple of weeks following the arrival of Ayla… but now it is back to the real world, post-paternity leave!

I’m late blogging this but CMS and the Diocese of London recently produced a new schoools resource for easter - this modern representation of the Easter story comes in photographic form, [...]

Encounter Bangladesh

I’ve recently agreed to lead a group in October ‘08 to visit Bangladesh with CMS. We’ll be a small group spending two weeks with the Church of Bangladesh and visiting projects run by their Social Development Programme that provide practical support and assistance to the poor and marginalized in society, which include highlighting the issues [...]

Just People: the Micah Course - action tip

On Saturday I went to a training day for the Just People? course, otherwise known as the Micah Course. It’s a six-week course for churches wanting to explore integral mission, and in particular social justice issues and how they can respond to both global and local poverty. Here’s the blurb:
The course brings together down-to-earth theology, [...]

Exiles by Michael Frost

Over the past 4 or 5 months we have both been reading Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost – another good book that we’d recommend. In a nutshell the book explores ways of being church, or communitas, in a post-Christendom western-culture dominated by consumerism, isolation and indifference, where the church too [...]

Believing without belonging

A new report from Tearfund on churchgoing in the UK has some interesting findings - especially finding more evidence for the need to grow new communities and fresh expressions of church. I have not read it all but the BBC website says the report finds that whilst people find “the church thing a little bit [...]