-
Watching the devastation in SE Asia, I have been hearing people say, please pray. Now I believe in God and I believe in prayer, but watching this has left me unable to know where to begin asking God to intervene. My prayer is ‘why didn’t You intervene before?’Whilst I have been in bed with flu over christmas, I got to re-watch Simon Schama’s ‘A History of Britain’ on BBC2. When he got to the mid 14th century and detailed how the Black Death (plague), at it’s peack killed nearly 50% of the population of Britain (60% in some palces), not to mention what it had done through europe on it’s journey here. At it’s peak 300 people died daily within the square mile of the city of london alone.
King Edward the III knowing this plague was coming the Britain, and knowing it began around the southern ports of Kent, asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to organise prayers. But the archbishop died from the plague before he could carry out that request. Instead the prior of Canterbury, began a letter in response back to the Bishop of London, with the word Terribilis: ‘Terrible is God towards the sons of men and by his command all things are subdued to his will’.
-
From Willzhead
———
Brian McLaren on Emergent as a MovementIf you have been following the conversation in the Emergent as a Society thread you may have already read this. However, Brian McLaren suggested the following thoughts which I think are helpful, and it was difficult to post them yesterday…
Continue reading »
-
On Sivin’s recommendation I just ordered this:
-
April 18th-21st 2005, Asbury Theological Seminary.I was due to speak at this in November but it got moved to April, so will be there then instead. My topic will be "Is There A Future for Preaching in the Emerging Church?" I have pasted some info below from the site.
It will also form the paper for this coming/term semester for my doctoral programme. So if any of you have come across any good books/materials on this please let me know.
BTW I hope you had a great christmas. I spent 5 days in bed with the flu, so missed it all :-(
link
—–
-
Have a great christmas. I’m away from my blog for a few day.
-
I just finished a paper this semester/term on spiritual formation in the emerging church. The file is quite large so to save bandwidth on my blog, if you want a copy can you e-mail me at jason.clark@vineyardchurch.org
-
For all of you who thought I had gone to the dark side by using a tablet pc, you can relax, and stop mailing me. I just got a small toilet room at home ripped out and turned into a computer room.
A G5 desktop, refurbished (and nearly £500 off of retail price) has arrived and is almost set up in there. It’s taking some getting used to, but it’s good to get back on a mac again. Now I can be a better mac, snob, someone who uses mac and pc but knows a mac is better.
-
emergent village have mp3s of talks by tom wright and walter brueggemann available to download.
-
A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG).
The Australian gamer, known only by his gaming moniker Deathifier, bought the island in an online auction.
The land exists within the game Project Entropia, an RPG which allows thousands of players to interact with each other.
REst of story
-
I’ve been having a great e-mail conversation with Alan Hirsch (author of ‘Shaping of Things to Come’), and in the middle of it he sent me an article he wrote for one of his national newspapers on what he see the Emerging as.
You can download it here
