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Jesus and other religions

Posted by Dyfed on Monday, January 16, 2012 In : Mondays with McLaren 



“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me’.” This was Jesus’ answer when Thomas asked him how people get into heaven and what happens to all the other religions in the world. Except this wasn’t the question Thomas asked and we should, therefore, be very wary of trying to make Jesus’ words fit into our preconceived ideas. And it is through studying the context of Jesus’ words that Brian McLaren attempts an alternative ...

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Inspired Scripture

Posted by Dyfed on Friday, January 13, 2012 In : Bible 



A common misuse of the Bible is to pluck out a verse to prove a point. Where the Bible itself is the subject of the discussion the verse most commonly used is 2 Timothy 3:16 – ‘All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.’ There, they say with a flourish, this proves that the Bible as a whole is the word of God. I’d like to take the next two or three posts to have a closer look at this text.

All scripture

Let...

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Roger Mitchell and Post-Christendom

Posted by Dyfed on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 In : Post-Christendom 



‘How is it that the best of church experience in both traditional and radical expressions tends to relapse to hierarchical domination and control?’ This is Roger Hadon Mitchell’s chilling question in his introduction to his newly published PhD thesis, Church, Gospel & Empire (Eugene, OR, 2011.) It isn’t the only question posed but for the purpose of this blog it is possibly the most important.

And it includes within it some vital clues as to how Roger Mitchell intends to answer his own...

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Embracing other faiths

Posted by Dyfed on Monday, January 9, 2012 In : Mondays with McLaren 



Brian McLaren (in A New Kind of Christianity) frames his ninth question – on religious pluralism – within the context of armed conflict between faith communities around the world. This is certainly a very potent frame but he could also have mentioned the current narrative that is predominant among some Christian conservatives in the west – that of the rise of Islam and the threat to Christian religious freedom. Whichever frame we use the need to explore pluralism is vital in today’s w...

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Secret Gospels

Posted by Dyfed on Friday, January 6, 2012 In : Bible 



For the past 200 years or so the Bible has come to play an increasingly central part in the daily life of ordinary Christians. It wasn’t always the case. Go further back and few ordinary Christians could either read or could afford their own copy. Go further back again and the Bible did not exist in their language. Even further and the Latin version was quite rare. Take another step to the third century and there wasn’t even a common agreement on which books should be included in the Bibl...

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Some thoughts following my visit to Occupy London.

October 27th 2011

Ok so there’s plenty to disagree with but this is such a good song.

October 12th 2011
There are so many draining things we can focus on during the day: how we appear to others, how much others do or don’t respect us, how we can get people to do what we want. But once we become aware of the negative impact of these areas of focus, we can get clear on - even excited about - who we really want to be … We can shift our focus toward qualities like mercy, gentleness, courage, and the many others that bring true joy in our lives and in the lives of others.

Sasha Silverman and Malcom Smith

via MinEmergent

October 5th 2011
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