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 [...]

Wild Swimming

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 [...]

Blood River

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Secret Message of Jesus

We mentioned The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren whilst in the UK but until now haven’t had the chance to actually explain much about it. Brian McLaren is a church leader who has written a number of books and is a significant voice in the EmergingChurch movement, particularly in the USA. In The [...]

GodSpace by Christine Sine

I was pleased to see that Sacred Rhythms (which we’ve mentioned before) has been updated and revised, now reprinted as GodSpace: Time for Peace in the Rhythms of Life – and Christine Sine has started a blog called GodSpace.

GodSpace… looks at the natural rhythms God built into our world and how paying attention to [...]

Streams of Living Water

Another book plug of something I’ve been reading of late - this time for Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith by Richard Foster. The book examines the unique contributions of six major dimensions of the spiritual life of Christ and seen through church history - providing a balanced and deep [...]

When the time was Right

Despite the fact that we couldn’t feel any less like Christmas with the current heat of Zambia, Polly and I keep humming Christmas carols - must be inbuilt in us I guess? As advent approaches I thought I’d mention that Stephen Rand – my former boss when I worked for Tearfund – has just written [...]

Subverting the empire in a post-modern world

I have just read Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire, which is a fantastic book looking at the first century New Testament letter to the Colossian church/community for anyone who today identifies with a post-modern world. How do you read a biblical text that to post-modern ears can seem to talk of rigid absolutes that punch [...]

Daily Prayers

I have already blogged about our mission statement in ‘Getting to this point’. Since trying to put our statement into action through our lives, we have produced Daily Prayers that embody our statement. For some time now we have been exploring Celtic Christian traditions – using Morning, Midday and Evening prayer from, amongst other sources, [...]