United Kingdom Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today that the British government will be taking measures to prevent radicals staying in the UK:
Coming to the UK is a privilege and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life.
The suspected individual will be asked to prove [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Preaching hatred
Posted in Current events, tagged Christianity, Crusades, Hate crimes, Islam, United Kingdom on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Marianne Williamson- spiritual therapy
Posted in Beliefs, People, Self-help, tagged Marianne Williamson on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Marianne Williamson
Lecturer, author and spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson has a television show ‘On A Course in Miracles’ with a regular slot on Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah and Friends
She sees herself as a seeker for the christianity beyond existing organisations and theology: I’m not a minister, I’m not a rabbi, but I’m totally excited by God and Jesus. [...]
Church Transformation: it’s a process…
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, People, tagged Christianity, Church Transformation, Postmodern Christianity on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A document first circulated around Texas United Methodist Churches in 2006 has been adopted as a plan for how the Church can grow ‘traditional churches without traditional problems’: Your church can grow without many of the problems that often accompany change and transformation! Purposeful Pragmatic church growth is the key!
This is the work of Rev Dr [...]
Female Imams : theological destiny
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, People, tagged Islam, Women on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Professor Amina Wadud lead the prayers at the start of a conference on Islam and feminism at Wolfson College in Oxford, UK, today.
Although women have lead mixed prayers in the US, South Africa and Canada, this is a first for the UK, welcomed by Muslim feminists:
‘within the Hadith there is a woman called Umm Waraqa [...]
Venerable Bede
Posted in History, People on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
The English Benedictine monk Bede ( 672-735) wrote a book in 731, Ecclesiastical History of the Angle Peoples which is still in print today, telling [...]
The Spiritual Experience within Bipolar
Posted in Beliefs, People, tagged Bipolar, Mental Illness, Salvador Dali, YouTube on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
~ William Orville Douglas, Supreme Court Judge & writer, 1898-1980
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YouTube is a movie website for home-made creative film projects, the two films below are made by a man with experience of the condition as his commentary on the spiritual aspect of bipolar mania set to [...]
Rowland Croucher, John Mark Ministries
Posted in Beliefs, People, tagged Christianity, Church practices on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Australian counsellor and pastor Rowland Croucher has created an online collection of resources and ideas for Christian ministry with the John Mark Ministries.
He is currently collecting comments from around the world about what are the top 10 best practices for a church. Here are mine:
10 Church Best Practices
*keep the most important values of Christ as the most important [...]
THEOOZE: Conversation for the journey; the emerging church and post-modern Christianity
Posted in Beliefs, People, tagged Emerging Church, Postmodern Christianity, theology on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor, photographer, writer and post-modern Christian Spencer Burke tells on Theooze how he came to be managing an online magazine and seeker community:
I used to be a pastor. More than that, I was a pastor at Mariners Church in Irvine, California-a bona fide mega church with a 25-acre property and a $7.8 million dollar budget.
By most accounts, Mariners is [...]
