The funny guys at Babyon Bee have hit on a Forsythian nerve of mine. The headline 'Half Of Congregation Dies Of Starvation As Sermon Goes 15 Minutes Over Time' is brilliant satire, as are almost all of their other articles; a much welcome relief to the tedium of seriousness we Protestants can so easily find... Continue Reading →
The funny guys over at Babylon Bee have hit on a Forsythian nerve of mine. The headline 'Half of Congregation Dies Of Starvation As Sermon Goes 15 Minutes Over Time' is brilliant satire, as are almost all of their other articles; a much welcome relief to the tedium of seriousness we Protestants can so easily... Continue Reading →
The funny guys at Babyon Bee have hit on a Forsythian nerve of mine. The headline 'Half Of Congregation Dies Of Starvation As Sermon Goes 15 Minutes Over Time' is brilliant satire, as are almost all of their other articles; a much welcome relief to the tedium of seriousness we Protestants can so easily find... Continue Reading →
Israel or Palestine – where is it heading? A sermon by Richard Matcham based on Romans 11:25-36 “Lord I pray that the raw nerves and thin shells this topic will likely touch upon, will enlarge the capacity of us all to engage truthfully with the text and the world, and challenge us to be contentedly... Continue Reading →
After listening to a great article of Radio 4's 'Beyond Belief' and the discussion about the relationship between 'religion and psychotherapy' (read: Christianity & psychotherapy), I have transcribed a four minute interview with a Christian Psychotherapist, Tony Yates of Cornerstone, that takes place about half way through the program. The questions are asked by the... Continue Reading →
On the 21st June 2015 Rev. Dr. Derek Tidball was the guest preacher at church, and you can listen to his sermon here. Derek is a British theologian, sociologist of religion, former Principal of London School of Theology, retired Baptist minister and author of numerous books, the most recent one of which I have read... Continue Reading →
"The Anglo-American Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation was from its inception a political theology. The tradition openly constructed friends (Jews) as well as enemies (Muslims and Roman Catholics), while cultivating occidentocentric discources that discounted Eastern Christians. These constructions are manifested in contemporary discourses surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which cast Jews within eschatological dramas while... Continue Reading →
May 15th is the anniversary of what the Palestinian people (Muslim, Christian, Other), call 'Al Nakba' meaning 'The Catastrophe'. The day in 1948 when Israelis declared independence before systematically and brutally removing indigenous people from their ancestral land, beginning what we know as today, sixty-six years later, as 'The Israeli-Palestine Conflict'. Below is a sermon... Continue Reading →
Not Catalyst Olive, as one guest poet humourously suggested, but Catalyst Live! Anyway, I've digressed already! The event held in Manchester and Reading this week by the BMS team has been very well received. There were many highlights, many of them great, some funny and some weird, but that's a bit like me so I... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 