guest blog post by Craig Williams One of the challenges to being missional is that our tendency is to move from being personal to being institutional. The mission of God is that God the Father sends Jesus, together they send us the Spirit, and the triune God sends us, the church to be a sign [...]
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Charge!
this week’s guest blog post is by Rev. Craig Williams New Charge Development: it’s the term that the Church of Scotland has used to describe New Church Development or church planting. When I first encountered the term it certainly caused confusion in conversations we were having with those responsible for the charge! in Scotland. Ironically [...]
Practicing Resurrection
"You know, we spend 40 days of Lent 'giving up' in preparation for Easter, but what about after? What does it mean to not just practice abstaining or fasting or waiting–what does it mean to 'practice resurrection,' to celebrate what comes after the preparation?" They were questions brought to me by a friend. She [...]
Reaching Out to a Disconnected World
“Those over-involved with the Internet tend more towards depression.” So says Dr. Glenn McLaren from Swinburne University in Melbourne on a recent podcast from Ockham’s Razor. It’s worth a listen, especially for those of us who tend to focus more on theological debates than more scientific or philosophical ones, if for no other reason than [...]
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