To be frank

A Christ-like Indifference?

This is about dealing with the things you haven't got done. Is there an appropriate sense of not caring, or perhaps seeing things from a 'higher' plane?

On the edge of the sacred

This semester I'm teaching about Church: and the search for authentic community. Part of that is about the nature of ministry. I have to wrestle with this myself, constantly. What does it really mean to engage as a representative of the Gospel we proclaim? Can anyone honestly do that?!

The gift of today: living with hope

Today I read this delightful paragraph which expresses exactly how I want to live.

Beyond religion: church!

I am so excited by Diana Butler Bass' book Christianity for the rest of us: how the neighbourhood church is transforming the faith.

The Bible in the jungle: Ingrid Betancourt's testimony

I’ve just finished reading Ingrid Betancourt’s fabulous account of her six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle, Even silence has an end. (Virago, 2010)

Health and salvation: we're in this together

World Health Day is April 7th. The Baptist World Alliance has released this helpful and challenging paper, Committing to being centers of health. It would be good to consider what it means for local work-places, streets and communities, and for each of us, to take an active interest in what promotes a wholistic sense of health. We are in this together. We have more and more information about health, but in some ways we do less and less about it. Here's the text of the BWA paper: