Anne Stewart is looking for football shirts. “I’m particularly keen for schools to get involved as then we’ll get kids’ sizes of shirts. I’m equally keen for churches to get involved as I want prisoners to see church as a Good Thing.” Confused? Read the post, then send a shirt!
Louis Kinsey raises an eyebrow at the Kirk’s survey of young people’s attitudes to the Church and religion.
“I have to confess to being reluctantly sceptical about the figure of 10 percent. If that were the case in our parish, it would mean 80-100 teenagers attending a church service, probably in our church, each weekend. Quite what going ‘to a [...]
Encouraging news from Iain Cunningham, just back from St Andrews University, where he was serving as chaplain to a conference run by the Church of Scotland Ministries Council for candidates for the ministry.
Brodie MacGregor regrets: “Many of our contemporary songs stand out for the lack of the use of the name of Jesus in them. The name Jesus is predominantly replaced by the word ‘you’. I fear that in this we are losing something that is both valuable and powerful. This is amplified when the use of [...]
Andrew Jones has been wrestling with whether to keep the term “Emerging Church” and apply it to a new project this year. Here are the results from his poll, together with loads of comments.
“There is an ecological ethic waiting to be discovered by publishers,” comments Jim Gordon on the crowded field of commentaries.
“Amongst the tests of a good commentary is how they deal with the hard bits! Most exegetes can do the running commentary / say something about most things approach. But who unfankles textual knots? Who hears [...]
John Orr has spotted his listing here, and makes the exercise worthwhile with his thoughts, including:
“Any community, be it virtual or otherwise, be it secular or Christian, needs inclusiveness and participation before it will really work. That, I suspect, is the real challenge to social media - how to make it genuinely inclusive and participatory. [...]
Fred Drummond is impressed and encouraged after “a great day with the young people who are involved in DNA in Scotland”. (A link would have been good.)
But he’s worried about how young people are directed: “In our churches our ways of helping develop disciples is by teaching and example, but how often do we take [...]
Stewart Blythe worries: “I don’t see signs of resurrection in the European Church.”
“Last night I heard a comment from a justice seeking, people loving, Christian young person about how he had recently met with so many friends who are spiritual and love Jesus and are trying to make sense of faith (struggling) but who ‘hate’ the [...]
This Olympian event blog is well worth a visit.
John Keddie, the author of the biography of Olympic champion and missionary Eric Liddell entitled Running the Race, was in China during the Olympics to attend the official launch of the book’s Chinese edition. He was accompanied by his publisher’s design and business development manager, Peter Cooper, [...]
