I’ve just come across someone who describes their religious views on Facebook as ‘Secular Christian’. Anyone got any ideas what that might mean?
John Hobbins has challenged Bible bloggers to take on the world of children’s literature. John has a five-year-old daughter who many find a number of the books being reviewed a little too much just now. My choice, however, should be ideal bedtime reading. I adored Paddington when I was little. The cartoons on TV with [...]
There are two teenage girls playing tennis on TV at the moment. One is tall and blonde, wearing a little fitted dress that barely covers her bottom. The other is wearing an aertex shirt and pleated skirt that look like my old school games kit. She also has acne and looks like she could do [...]
Reading these comments on inner-city ministry from Hugh Balfour on Neil Robbie’s blog, I was reminded of a discussion we had in a women’s book group a few years ago concerning the sacrifices one might need to make in overseas mission work. Unsurprisingly, for parents, health and education provision for their children was very high [...]
In the olden days (and yes, that means I have no idea when) kings and queens and their courts used to leave their comfortable winter palaces in the summer months to go on a summer progress, or tour of their realm. This is when they would stay with various highly-favoured subjects, bankrupting many in the [...]
Here’s the one-liner:
the Bible as it is is without error because the Bible as it is is God’s Word.
For the rest, see his blog post.
Or at least a step in the right direction. Willow Creek seem to have finally realised that church isn’t about becoming like the world but about teaching and building up its members so that they can win the world. It’ll be interesting to see how they respond when people start leaving the church as a [...]
David Field has a little odd-one-out quiz.
The answer is clearly (a) since the other two might actually be worth the time taken to read them. Nor are they massively overrated nonsense.
David Field has a very helpful post capturing some of the methodological differences between those who might be labelled ‘confessionalists’ and those who might be labelled ‘biblicists’. Sadly, these methodological differences can lead to much more serious fallings out.
…for a new game to play on camp this summer. I call it ‘Paparazzi Photo Run’. Send the kids out with disposable cameras to take pictures of local celebrities. Points scored according to celebrity status:
10 for an Olympic yachtsman
15 for a Ken Russell
3,000,000 for a Johnny Depp.
According to today’s Telegraph they should [...]
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