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ARA MILES’ New book, Jesus Freak, is a blessing and a curse – both for the same reason: you have to sit down and think. You have to think all the way through. When Sara’s publisher offered to send me a review copy, I was very thankful. But I wasn’t expecting this [...]

Clicking through the internet, the phrase “Christ Mystery” in a Catholic context sounded at once rather engaging and surprising. Canon Edward West told me once *never* to refer to it as “the Christ Event” because it was dated (this was in 1985, and even then, the theological lingo of the late 60 and early [...]

ANY OF MY Readers and friends will be aware of my attachment and love for Judaism and my sense that Christianity is supposed to be Judaism for Gentiles. Laying aside, for a moment, questions of Trinity or Incarnation or our tradition of anti-semitism, I think our clearest sense of who we are is to [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Psalm 116:1-9

James 3:1-12

Mark 8:27-38

Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary
God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that word here in its correct, linguistic meaning. [...]

HE HIPPEST (Most Hip?) Theological war to hit the Emerging Church and several parallel groups is – of course – Teh Gay. Do a google on outlaw preachers, or take a look on twitter for the same thing. There is, of course, a facebook group, too.
The Outlaw preachers are, very generally, a group [...]

If you reject any or all of the following:
God will punish us with eternal hell for our sins.

God will judge us for even the slightest imperfection.

Salvation means only having your sins “forgiven” and not being sent to hell after you die.

Jesus is the only means of “getting saved”.

Once saved God will count your debt “paid [...]

(Reposted and updated a bit from last year)
Christ is Risen!
Ruth Gledhill asked Did Jesus really rise from the dead?.
It sparked a whole line of thought in my head and, what with (WR) Easter coming up in a couple of Sundays and (ER) Lent just getting off the ground, it seems like a logical time to [...]

Building the Kingdom

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

Some assembly required.
About half-way through this art project (which involves the Rasturbator and a photo of an icon from St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco) I realised there was another art project just sitting here right in front of me.
Where do you fit in?

O LAST Night at the Housing Co-Op we had our weekly pot luck. For afters we had some tasty homemade cakes frosted in a way that many will recognise:

I took the cake and cut the first slice. As I passed it to my right I said, “This is my Obama, given for you.”
No [...]

S MANY Of my regular readers will no, I predicted we’d not even get to have an election this year – because I thought that the possibility of Obama winning would be too scary for certain parties. But then Obama caved on civil rights as vrs national security and I saw there’d be no [...]