Leonard Cohen has been called “The poet of the heart”. He’s certainly written some stunning love songs! But, for my money, he’s also written some of the most profoundly true theological lyrics I have come across. Take his song Anthem, for instance. It’s a song that deals with brokenness and grace. [...]
Archive for August, 2006
that’s how the light gets in
30 August, 2006the real problem with miracles ….
17 August, 2006I’m grateful to Dave Faulkner for the following:
The BBC completes tonight a three-part series on The Miracles Of Jesus, fronted by Rageh Omaar. Miracles are a topic of conversation. But as one preacher commented in 1999:
If Jesus were alive today, he wouldn’t be allowed to get away with half the miracles he performed. It’s not [...]
a “must go-see”!
17 August, 2006Check out Ben Myers’ post on the worst liturgical innovations. He invites votes on them – and the responses make great reading! Add your own. Me? I went for the tacky liturgical greeting that I had to endure for a while in a church I was in: the minister welcomed us [...]
liberals & conservatives: a plague on both their houses!
15 August, 2006I get really fed up with the intra-church wars that go on between liberals and conservatives! I’m sick of long, bitter and futile arguments over historicity in the bible that never get as far as probing the meaning and importance of the texts. I’m sick of evangelicals who privatise and inividualise faith so [...]
who says politics ain’t black & white?
15 August, 2006It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragically real!
making war on kids
3 August, 2006I watched Sky news. Beirut families were pouring out of a block of flats that was under attack. They fled to a school, thinking they’d be safe there – but they weren’t. Shells started landing nearby. Now the children were streaming from the school, crazed with terror. One little girl [...]
