Last night I headed over to Richmond to listen to the President and Vice President of the Methodist Conference. I thought the q&a would be followed by a sermon, or address or something, but it wasn’t. Just a normal service, which was quite lengthy, but without the sermon…a bit wierd really. Anyway, I am not [...]
Third Party describes herself as “Christianus but Beyond Denomination (Denominatly confuddled)” on her Facebook profile. This has replaced “post-denominational” which she had for a while. It is a position which, I am only just beginning to realise, may serve her very well over the next couple of decades and give her a more comfortable transition [...]
I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve heard over the last few years talking about being out of church at the moment after a bad experience; wanting to go back but not knowing where was safe to go to. I’ve also seen various groups compiling lists of “affirming” churches which inevitably will include [...]
Last week I sat politely listening to John Drane talk about the probable demise of the church. He was envisagening a velvet revolution / fall of the Soviet Union type situation where one day it was there, the next something had just happened. He also referred in passing to the fact alot of people in [...]
Back in July last year I put up this blog post which discussed my sexuality and ended with this paragraph:
“I know I hold a position which cannot be justified, and that the secular is sensible enough not to find virtuous therefore, I can’t discuss it with them. The effect of this means I walk around [...]
Housegroups, cell groups, self-help groups, Christian Union groups, book groups, film societies, and so on…all of them are part of what Robert Wuthnow describes as part of the small group movment in his study “Sharing the Journey”. Whilst the 2000 interviews were conducted nearly two decades ago and the book itself was published 15 years [...]
They’ve been getting alot of flack lately but I’d just like to say hurrah for this change the CofE are introducing: marriage and baptism rolled into one for couples who already have kids. CofE website explains here and BBC picked up here…although think with the picture the BBC chose they are getting abit ahead of [...]