On Earth as in Heaven

this is a place dedicated to musings about the work of God in fulfilling the prayer that things may be 'on earth as in heaven'. it is about 'mission' as part of God's mission to bring this about. it is about how that is coming to birth in a post Christendom world and how faith is expresssed and lived out in this new world and it's many cultures.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The language of ‘fresh expressions of church’ may be killing our mission I think we often underestimate the power of language. The words we ...

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Are we 'a Christian country'?

I'll let others decide how relevant a question this is in other countries, but I doubt this is just a question here in the UK! in the UK...

Thursday, May 29, 2008

the new charismatics: revival and evangelism

firstly apologies...a long time no post! so if anyone is out there my thought has been in the book I've been writing...and now am editin...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Removing Christendom from Halloween

Halloween is a controversial subject in many ways, several folks I know and respect in the UK have been campaigning to get alternatives to h...

Friday, July 13, 2007

U-Topia or My-Topia (synchroblog)

many of us dream of utopias, but what of these dreams? i find the U in utopia something worth reflecting on. we all have our dreams of the p...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Gospel according to Buffy (synchroblog)

This is part of a SynchroBlog on Christianity and film, follow the links below for others taking part, and enter the debate on this and othe...

Sunday, March 25, 2007

a guilty conscience?

Firstly sorry for such a long gap - assuming anyone is out there to read this by now ;o) OK currently writing a book (part of reason for lon...

Monday, December 04, 2006

Ideology and God part 2

I'm a big fan of the current crop of US crime shows, CSI, without a trace, and crminal minds. we get them late in the UK so apologies to...

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Interview/ Hong Kong meeting

John Smulo who blogs at 'smulo space' http://johnsmulo.typepad.com/ has just published a two part interview with me. John was someo...

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Have pastors become shopkeepers?

As ever Bob Carlton has found a really interesting piece to put on his blog http://thecorner.typepad.com/bc/2006/08/eugene_peterson.html the...

Monday, July 17, 2006

Is God an idealist?

OK kind of sounds a stupid question, of course God is an idealist and Christians should be idealists. I am inclined that way myself too! But...

Sunday, June 18, 2006

God is a DJ

Thanks to the man who seems to live online and comes up with some real gems, Bob Carlton. follow this link to a couple of awesome little vid...

Return to the monastery, or why doctrine is not the issue in mission

With the start of 'the convent' we first got to see 'return to the monastery' see http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/m...

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Da Vinci Code

Well for more 'serious' engagement do get my new Grove Book on this (you know you want to ;o) http://www.grovebooks.co.uk/cart.php?t...

how to do evangelism?

follow this link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5479410612081345878 to a really useful vidoe guaranteed to help in your evangleis...

Monday, May 01, 2006

Orthodox or Authentic?

not blogged for a while but they may now come like UK buses...the saying is you wait for one for ages then three come at once! We shall see ...

Friday, February 24, 2006

Britain's psychic challenge

UK's channel 5 has recently been running a reality psychic game show of this name, whittling 5,000 self professed psychics down to a fin...

Monday, January 09, 2006

Beyond belief?

UK channel 4 are just running a programme's series by biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, with the above tile. His thesis 'is rel...

Friday, December 02, 2005

purgatorio: You Might Be Emerging If...

http://purgatorio1.blogspot.com/2005/11/you-might-be-emerging-if.html this is rather fun (thanks to Bob Carlton in the US for this) i think...

Thursday, November 17, 2005

emergent UK Holy Spirit in contemporary culture day

it was good to be at this conversation last Saturday in St Albans (see Jason Clarks blog for more info http://www.emergent-uk.org/jasonblog....

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About Me

Steve: Sutton Coldfield, W Midlands, United Kingdom; i work freelance as a researcher in religion culture church planting and mission as well as being a part-time tutor for an Anglican mission agency called the Church Army. my research is about enabling the church to communicate effectively with the increasing numbers who have no church background. this is about what is traditionally called evangelism, but my role is about thinking beyond such traditions! indeed exploring evangelism as a journey of discovery between seekers accross many faiths and spiritual traditions to which i bring my own christian tradition, and not about bible bashing, street preaching or a door to door selling approach. i am married to a church of england priest who works in St Albans, which is why i live here even though my my Church Army office is in Sheffield.

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