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Digital Spirituality?

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Christianity and the Digital Space symposium in Durham through my work on ChurchMCR.
One of the “conversation strands” I went to was about spirituality and the digital space and the conversation helped me crystalise some things have struck me over the last couple of years about how many [...]

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Temporary Identity

It’s been 5 months since I last blogged here. I feel bad about not having blogged about alot of stuff I’ve thought over that time, but one of the things I’m learning is that most things are temporary, especially when you have a baby!
It was around 5 months ago that I had a bit of [...]

The Healthy And Pain-Full Body

I have now finished reading the book Where Is God When It Hurts and it has been very thought provoking. Although it deals largely with physical pain and things like terminal illness, it still helped me think through the pain of my grief in different ways.
The last section of the book is about what Christianity [...]

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Human Hell House

I am currently watching my way through the top 25 documentaries, one of which is a film called Hell House.
I already knew what this documentary was about because I had seen something on a TV show where one of the presenters went to go and see it. What I understood from that TV show was [...]

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Religion, Politics and Hope

When I read God’s Politics by Jim Wallis I became hopeful that there were American Christians who thought and spoke sense. It was great to read this challenge to the Church and to have it explained so intelligently and passionately. So I enjoyed this video of him on the fabulous Daily Show:

Christianity and Politics obviously [...]