Rachelle Mee Chapman, one of the Seattle Abbesses, has posted a lovely-sounding healing rite on her blog today. It incorporates the use of hot stones and a “meditative body scan”. I hope someone in Foundation picks up on this, as I’d love someone to do it for me, rather than be the one who has […]
Category Archives: spirituality
Asking questions of God
Paul Fromont’s blog has a great reference to some wise words by the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks: [Dr Sacks says:] “To be without questions is not a sign of faith, but of lack of depth.” Jews are encouraged not only to ask questions about the meaning of the faith, but to question God. We ask […]
A grumpy post on early Christmas shopping
It’s of the devil. There’s no doubt about it. The way that the mad rush to begin (and hence complete) Christmas shopping before some kind of consumerist Tsunami takes over the high street becomes a fixation in people’s minds. The result is that more and more of us are taking to the shops earlier and […]
Lizzie’s lightbox
Lizzie Everard’s blog is a delight. She’s a cyclist blogger (cycloblogger?) too.
Rowan Williams and John Humphrys in search of God
This morning, Radio 4 broadcast one of the most outstanding pieces on Christianity that I have ever heard. John Humphrys, known in the UK as one of most respected (and feared) interviewers around, is running a series where he speaks with a set of religious leaders from Judaism, Islam and Christianity about why they believe. […]
Alpha, Beta, …
After reading Alan Jamieson’s excellent book A Churchless Faith over the summer, I’ve been thinking on and off about the importance of faith development theory to mission strategy (something he urges churches to do). It’s currently shaping some planning we’ve been doing in regard to setting up a nurture course policy which is deliverable across […]
The peasants are revolting sire …
A sudden rash of ASB revivalism has broken out in the English Anglican sectors of the blogosphere these past 24 hours since the A P Lunchington Memorial Site blogged about finding the Common Worship daily office too much like hard work, and how the ASB was much simpler. Here’s a snippet about what Dyfrig thinks […]
The Monastery – Tony says it all…
Well done to Dave Walker for transcribing the most poignant thing said in tonight’s catch-up episode following the Monastery – last year’s excellent reality series in which a group of men spent 40 days in Worth (Benedictine) Abbey. Tony, whose life was significantly altered by the stay, commenting on his struggle to join a church […]
Afternoon in Oxford
I had been booked some time back to preach at the Sunday evening communion service at Keble College Chapel. The reason I’d landed this gig is that Jennifer Cooper, currently tutor in theology at Keble, will be coming to the parish to serve her curacy after ordination in September. Moments after arriving, we passed through […]
Blah: Ryan Bolger and Karen Ward are coming to Bristol
Readers of Jonny Baker’s blog will be aware of the forthcoming Blah tour, bringing Ryan Bolger (author of Emerging Churches, the definitive book on the Emerging Church) and Karen Ward (Abbess of Church of the Apostles, Seattle) to the UK. Well, we’ve just fixed up the Bristol venue and date. 14th July 2006, 10am to […]