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If 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?

A recent national poll in the States shows that a majority of both white evangelicals and Catholics support a pro-life and pro-poor, pro-family and pro-peace and creation care agenda.

Allison 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: "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."

Visiting 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.

A helpful article on the Anabaptist Network's website, made freely available:

Explaining Church Disicpline by Stuart Murray Williams.

Miroslav 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 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.

A new Christian network in Edinburgh devoted to climate change issues: Edinburgh Climate Network

Came 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).