All Blog Posts Tagged 'Jesus' (14)

Churches Together in Crayford got in the picture at Sainsburys to see more pictures follow this link

http://getinthepicture.org.uk/viewevent/nativity-photoshoot-at-sainsburys

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http://together.ourchurchweb.org.uk/crayford/whats-on/events/

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Members of the Meissen Commission worked hard on educational and musical matters all this morning before going up to the Wartburg this afternoon. This is the castle where Martin Luther spent many months being protected after his excommunication by the Pope. Not only did we do the tour, but we…

Yesterday the Telegraph published an article I had written about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for Jesus. Not his personal spiritual quest, of course, but…

Yesterday saw a group of people discovering that they weren’t as big as they thought they were. James and John, preoccupied with their own status have gone. Peter (or ‘Rocky’ to his friends) has contradicted every pretension and disowned his friend. And Pontius Pilate, a man with only the…

I was doing Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2′s Chris Evans Showthis morning and arrived while some fun was being had at the expense of ITV. I caught the last half an hour or so of the Brits last night and was…

Not much time for blogging during a full London week. The General Synod kept me occupied during the day, other meetings (usually over a meal) in the evenings. The one morning I thought I…

So, Christopher Hitchens has died. I, for one, am sad to hear this.

Any death ends a…

Following Morning prayer and breakfast, the College of Bishops meeting then breaks down into small groups for Lectio Divina – which is simply a way of engaging everyone in a reading of and reflection on a passage from the Bible. It is always fascinating and surprising to see who focuses on what…

As indicated in recent posts from the United States, I have been reading a book of biblical reflections by the German theologian Fulbert Steffensky…

One of my friends told me he and his wife flew from Heathrow to Dresden on a small plane called a ‘Bombardier’. Not very tactful, I would have thought, given the destination.

The other thing I learned from the telly is that a group of atheists (not further defined) preceded the Kirchentag…

One of the things that I find most challenging about the Gospels is that they drive a coach and horses through easy assumptions about God and those who take God seriously. It’s no wonder that some Christians find Paul easier to handle (he develops arguments) than Jesus (he gives…

As we are about to begin the haunting journey through Holy Week (which needs to be lived as if we didn’t know the outcome), I have been doing two things: listening to the new Bruce Cockburn album and reading…