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I Couldn’t Have Said It Better

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to find something to say about our holiday in Skye. Then I came across this combination of amazing photographs coupled with music from Skye’s own Peatbog Faeries. I’m a bit embarrassed to suggest that you look at my own photos, but if you’d like to see […]

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Books I Have Read: Soldiers

If you want to read a detailed history of the British Army, then Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors should be your first port of call. The book is well written and makes a great read for anyone interested in military history. I really enjoyed it. However, it is exhaustive – or perhaps […]

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Scripture Tools for Every Person

I don’t often post other peoples’ press releases, but this is important and I want to make sure it gets lots of exposure. Tyndale House Cambridge Launches Beta-version of Scripture Tools for Every Person (STEP), a new free Bible study resource. 24 July 2013, CAMBRIDGE, UK Today the STEP development team of Tyndale House Cambridge […]

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Church: World Mission Reviews

Books I have Read: The Meeting Of The Waters

 OK, let’s get the important stuff out of the way. Currently, The Meeting of the Waters: 7 Global Currents That Will Propel the Future Church is available for Kindle for £1.99 (it was free until yesterday). At that price it is an absolute steal and if you are involved in Church or mission leadership you should buy […]

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Bible & Mission Mission Observations

Hokey-Cokey Contextualisation

You put your right arm in, you put your right arm out… Most people are aware of the concept of contextualisation. The notion that missionaries should present the Gospel in a way which speaks into the culture to which it is being addressed. The result is that the expression of Christianity in the UK today […]

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Mission Observations

Issues in Mission: Elements of A New Paradigm

We need to completely rethink our approach to mission and to supporting mission work from the UK. Tinkering at the edges and solving problems are no longer enough. I wrote these words a few days ago in a blog post which suggested that we need a completely new paradigm or set of wineskins for overseas’ […]

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Books I have Read: Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father is currently available on Kindle for less than a pound. It’s not a bad thriller, not great, but perfectly good for reading by the pool or while watching the rain fall in Skye. It is a bit gruesome at times and won’t be to everyone’s taste. Also the central theme of the […]

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Books I Have Read: Murder in Malmo

I read Murder in Malmö shortly after reading and enjoying Meet me in Malmö by the same author. All I can say is that if Torquil MacLeod wants to keep on churning out mystery novels with alliterative titles, set in Sweden, I’ll keep reading them. Especially, if they stay relatively cheap on Kindle.

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Church: World Theology

Hyphenated Theology

I believe in a global theological accountability. We are all shaped by our contexts, personal and communal concerns, anxieties, questions and capabilities. This shapes how we read the Bible, how we develop theologies, what tools of interpretation we utilise, which metaphors we use and what topics we cover. This is not relativism, not a denial […]

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Mission Observations

Issues in Mission: Wine, Wineskins and Paradigms

We need to completely rethink our approach to mission and to supporting mission work from the UK. Tinkering at the edges and solving problems are no longer enough. This is another in my series of posts in response to Rollins Gram’s articles on issues in mission. When I first posted a link to these posts […]