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Are you ’saved’? What do you mean by that? Most Western Christians probably mean that because of Jesus death on the cross, their sins are forgiven, and then when they die, their ’soul’ goes to heaven to be with Jesus forever.  But this isn’t really what the New Testament teaches and even if where it […]

very good 10 min clip of Tom Wright talking about the sacraments.  His point is that there must be a blend of the Word and the sacrament.  There needs to be proper explanation of what the sacrament means - just as the Jews explain the story of Passover (notably in the present tense) to […]

I found myself listening to a bit of an ambush interview on a seemingly pretty fundamentalist web site that posted on youtube.  I haven’t read that much by Doug Pagitt but what I have seemed pretty sound to me.  The interviewer just won’t let him explain his perspectives and it saddened me that there was […]

thinking more about Marji’s brilliant post, I keep finding myself singing that song by James “Sit down”.  Here are the lyrics - I’m always very moved by the last verse and it sums up for me a lot of how Jesus always sided with marginalised, the hurting, the misunderstood.  It speaks to the heart of […]

So we read Matthew and then Acts and surprised ourselves at how enjoyable it was.  The curry and beer helped too I’m sure but it was very doable to read a whole book in one afternoon/evening.  We took about seven chapters in a sitting and went round the room, each person reading a whole chapter.  […]