I’m blogging through Kenda Creasy Dean’s new book, a theological follow up to Christian Smith’s Soul Searching. I hope you’ll join me. Find all the posts here. In chapter five, Kenda continues a theme that she’s already introduced: cultivating mis... read more

The title: ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ partly did it for me. Then there was the recommendation from ‘Paste’ magazine. Then the artists: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous relatively recently took his own life). Then the collaborators: Gruff... read more

Subculture Why is it that as Christians we seem so intent on building our own ghettos? Instead of connecting with out culture and bringing light and influence to it we separate ourselves and build our own little world. We create our own activities... read more

An apology to my readers: I am REALLY REALLY sorry my blog has sucked recently. For the past few months I have been lucky to post once or twice a week. The reason?Well, so much has been happening, in so many different places (we have been to about... read more

Thought that might grab some attention! ….I have had a few conversations recently with friends who are in the process of reviewing where they are going in terms of work, how they put food on the table for household or family, pursue a calling, eng... read more

In the last few weeks I’ve been reading the Message Old Testament and yesterday finished reading 2 Kings. For the first time I was struck by the loss of, and devastation to, the temple and Jerusalem. The last chapter setting out the removal of any... read more

Watching the BBC news item last night I was contemplating the significance of 500 million people now social networking via Facebook. It made me decide that Facebook or Twitter will need to wait until this thesis is written up as far as I’m concern... read more

It seems to me the message of freedom from the institution is permeating everything, so many conversations, comments and critiques here’s another really interesting article from Simon Barrow from the think tank Ekklesia. I especially like the firs... read more