Learning from your Enemies
Krish Kandiah has a blog post up about how Tom Wright ( N.T. Wright) is the christian equivalent of marmite. In the article he raises this point: “For some of my friends its all or nothing with the theologians they like. There’s a tick list – a writer needs to tick the boxes on a [...]
Youth Work Summit Musings Part 3: Deepening Faith 1
On Saturday, I attended the youthwork summit in Manchester: An incredible thought provoking, God soaked, challenging and inspiring day. Over the next few days, I hope to explore what I thought worked well (as well as what didn’t), what inspired and challenged me, what I disagreed with and what, frankly, bored me. sadly I couldn’t [...]
Doctrine, Education and Discipleship
I read this post by John Koessler yesterday. In it he claims that those who attacked Rob Bell‘s new book, “love wins” (and I don’t use the term lightly) were right to do so. “the general message seemed to be that anyone who would be disturbed by possibility that Rob Bell denies the literal nature [...]
Crap Youth Talks, Mourning and Lamentations
I gave a terrible youth talk on Sunday night. It really was rubbish. There were a number of contributing factors but ultimately it was my fault. What came out of my mouth was a series of random thoughts and questions that had no through line and no clear point. My heart sank as I watched [...]
The Importance of Beginning at the Beginning
I just listened to an incredibly exciting and thought provoking sermon that Rob Bell gave to ‘Mars Hill’ church a couple of weeks ago on how we read Genesis 1 and 2 and had to share it. Listen to it below or go to the Mars Hill website here
