A good e-friend of mine is making a presentation on the connection between social media, faith, and evangelisation. This friend emailed me for some ideas about this as well as some of the dangers of internet presence. I wrote: 1) I believe in the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints This means I stand
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The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (Hardcover) by Phyllis Tickle (Author) 176 pages Publisher: Baker Books (October 1, 2008) This book is about a very significant development within Christianity – and hence the world. The first point about this book is that it is not large. At around 60,000 words it is
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Richard Bauckham in Jesus and the Eyewitnesses argues strongly for Peter’s perspective behind our gospel “according to Mark”. If you want to get the flavour of this book, a lot of it is online. Papias, writing in the early second century, states that Mark was the “interpreter” of Peter, and that he wrote down (“but
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading Luke 4:1-13 The Temptation of Jesus 4Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at
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We say, piously, that the season of Lent prepares us for the season of Easter. Yeah – right! (wry smile – sarcastic tone) Parishes and Christian communities and groups gathered religiously during Lent for deep reflection, extra services, study groups,… Individuals gave up things, gave more away, took up extra disciplines, read more,… And all
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Honour the dead, our country’s fighting brave, honour our children left in foreign grave, where poppies blow and sorrow seeds her flowers, honour the crosses marked forever ours. Weep for the places ravaged with our blood, weep for the young bones buried in the mud, weep for the powers of violence and greed, weep for
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Yesterday our local newspaper reproduced word for word the article from the Times that when Prince Charles meets the pope next week, Benedict XVI will give him a bad-taste “luxury facsimile of the 1530 appeal by English peers to Pope Clement VII asking for the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon”. The
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 16:16-33 Sorrow Will Turn into Joy 16 ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.’ 17Then some of his disciples said to one another, ‘What does
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