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Interviews
Posted January 18th, 2010 by paul.edeI am using this post to make some information accessible as part of an essay I am writing for my urban masters.
Wisdom and Risk-taking
Posted December 10th, 2008 by paul.edeIf the new agenda for reconfiguring church life in the UK needs to be about risk-taking, what place does traditional wisdom hold in this set-up?
An Evaluation of Emerging Churches on the Basis of the Contextualization Spectrum (C1-C6) - Gregg Allison
Posted September 29th, 2008 by paul.edeAllison may well have captured the missiological interest in the Emergent Church.
The abbreviations of the C1-C6 were modified by Allison to reflect the application
to the British and North American contexts. The spectrum offered by Allison suggests the
following distinctive characteristics, which may be applied to the Emergent Church.
Leonard Sweet on The Emerging Church
Posted September 29th, 2008 by paul.edeLeonard Sweet: "The emerging church has become another form of social gospel. And the problem
with every social gospel is that it becomes all social and no gospel. All social justice
and no social gospel. It is embarrassing that evangelicals have discovered and
embraced liberation theology after it destroyed the main line, old line, side line, off
line, flat line church."
Powerpoints for Pastors in inner-cities and outer-estates
Posted September 24th, 2008 by paul.edeVisiting Easterhouse Baptist church last weekend, our team had a lovely time. But another real gem was discovering the minister Sandy Weddel's website of powerpoints: Pastors Powerpoints.
Volf does it again - "Soft Difference" - a postmodern evangelical take on the gospel and culture
Posted August 7th, 2008 by paul.edeMiroslav Volf has become one of my key mentors. He is becoming a truly great theologian. And I love almost everything he writes. ... In the attached article, he critiques Niebuhrs 5 positions on the gospel and culture and provides his own approach, based on a subtle reading of 1 Peter. He opposes what he calls 'hard difference' which excludes without embracing but also critiques relativism which embraces without excluding.
Steve Chalke on human trafficking
Posted July 26th, 2008 by paul.edeSteve Chalke on human trafficking at Rob Bell's church
Listen to the story of the Christian Martyr Telemachus whose protest and death caused the Roman Empire to stop Gladiatorial games
http://www.marshill.org/teaching/index.php
The American government estimates that more money is made globally through human trafficking than Microsoft makes.
Edinburgh Climate Network
Posted July 6th, 2008 by paul.edeA new Christian network in Edinburgh devoted to climate change issues: Edinburgh Climate Network
Evangelicals and Catholics Together
Posted July 6th, 2008 by paul.edeCame across Evangelicals and Catholics Together via Tony Campolo's Podcast.
This statement was signed by JI Packer, Ralph Martin and Avery Dulles among others. Ralph Martin is a ley figure in the Catholic Charismatic renewal. packer a close friend of John Stott and evangelical (rather than fundamentalist).
The Shift to Thrift
Posted July 6th, 2008 by paul.edeAn interview in the Guradian with Bob Holman who lived in Easterhouse doing incarnational ministry fror 17 years. Our friends Matt and Diane are continuing his work. Check out also his books "Kids at the Door" and "Kids at the Door revisited"
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