The Visited Planet

A story by J.B. Phillips: Once upon a time a very young angel was being shown round the splendours and glories of the universes by a senior and experienced angel. To tell

The call to come and die

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From In the Clearing: Beyond the need/fulfillment-of-need trajectory: If, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said, the call of Jesus Christ is always a call

Blessed Christmas

I’m spending some time today wrapping up some commitments before we head to our Christmas Eve service tonight. Then I’m mostly off work for the next couple of weeks. Beginning late

The Story of Stuff

If you’ve been following the Advent Conspiracy, this 20-minute online video is a good summary of the production cycle of our stuff: From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the

Blessed Christmas

This blog began very quietly back in June 2006 as I was working on my thesis on theocentric preaching at Gordon-Conwell. Since then it's grown slowly. About a hundred people subscribe