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Church: UK

A Vision for Your Life

You can read a talk by Dave Burke on having a vision for your life here. It’s well worth a read. I was particularly impressed with his sections on church life; try this for size: There are two kinds of churches, tidy churches and messy churches. Let me explain! Many of us will not rest […]

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Africa Church: World Mission

Things Coming Together

As readers of this blog (both of you) will know, there are two areas of Christian ministry which really fascinate me. The first is my day job, as it were, Bible Translation in Africa. The other is the whole area of what it means to be a missional church in the post-modern world. I was […]

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Mission Theology

Mission and Creation

One of the problems that besets the Church is that we tend to think of Mission as something that Christians, or the Church does. Thinking of mission as primarily a human activity tends to make us narrow the scope of what we see as mission. There is a running argument as to whether social action […]

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Africa Observations Politics

Just who is obsessed?

Recently, Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke up saying that the Anglican Church in Africa should do more to confront injustice in Zimbabwe and Darfur. You can’t help but admire the way that Bishop Tutu has spoken up for the oppressed over the years and taken sides which are politically unfashionable in his home country. He opposed […]

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Computing/Internet Observations

Email and Walls

Today I sat through an interesting discussion on different ways that busy people can manage their email. There were some good ideas shared and who knows, one day I might even get organised enough to use some of them. Actually, email has not been much of an issue on this trip because internet and email […]

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Computing/Internet

Problems

I recently updated the software running Kouya Chronicle to the latest version of WordPress. Unfortunately, I’ve had a few problems since and not all of the features are working as I’d like them to. I won’t be able to fix things till I get home to a faster internet connection (and perhaps even not then). […]

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Africa

Storm

I’m sitting in a meeting of Bible translation leaders from across Central Africa. The meeting is interesting – fascinating even, but it is very hard to concentrate. Outside there is a huge storm blowing and the sound of the rain on the tin roof and the wind blowing stuff around is more or less impossible […]

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Mission Observations Reviews

Exiles

I’ve just finished reading Michael Frost’s excellent Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture and want to suggest that as many other people as can buy it and read it too. It’s a terrific book painting a very vivid picture of what Church life could and perhaps should be like in the 21 Century. It […]

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Church: UK Mission

Mission in Suburbia

Todd Hiestand has written an excellent paper entitled: The Gospel and the God-Forsaken, The challenge of the missional church in suburbia. In a wide ranging piece Todd picks up on the way that much of western church life is subconsciously affected by the values of suburban life.  I’m particularly impressed with his analysis in linking […]

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Observations Politics

Pretentious Metaphor

I have a fairly strong dislike of articles that say things like ‘the Eurovision Song Contest is a Metaphor for our Times’. However, I feel like posting just some short thoughts that make exactly that rather pretentious point – and I promise to be embarrassed about it. Ten years ago, in 1997, Katrina and the […]