I’m on holiday now for a little while. So, you might not hear from me on here for a week or two. Or, knowing me, I may succumb to the odd post! But we’ll see… Happy Christmas!
Posted in December 2010 …
What kind of old man do you want to be? (2)
The text in this post comes from an article of mine published in the student magazine at college this month. It is the product of deeper thought on the topic of a previous post on this blog, so if you think you recognise parts of it, that is why! What kind of old man do you … Continue reading »
Resting the mind
Sorry if you are hoping to hear about something else…I am actually having a Ruth Haley Barton fest over the last few weeks and it seems set to continue for a little while yet! This quotation comes from ‘Invitation to Solitude and Silence’. For me, it’s one of those statements which, when you read them, … Continue reading »
Spiritual community – part 2
Continuing my thought from the weekend… Haley Barton also says this: It is much easier to talk about community, and even try to create community for others, than it is to actually live it at the leadership level. OK, so how many of us know that’s been true of us? I try to
Spiritual community
I’ve been reading Ruth Haley Barton again. I love her writing so much! This chapter from ‘Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership’ which I’ve been reading relates to moving from isolation to community as a leader. Whereas team centres around a task and disbands after that task’s completion, Haley Barton suggests that spiritual community is … Continue reading »
A God like Jesus
It is true that Jesus is like God, but the greater truth, one closer to the revelation of God that Jesus ushers in, is that God is like Jesus! I know that if you have any understanding of the Christian faith, then this is kind of an obvious statement from Alan and Debra Hirsch (in … Continue reading »
Called to stay?
It’s funny, isn’t it, how eventually some mature Christians leave one church and move to another in their locality. They are not moving because they have relocated for work or other reasons. In fact, they still live where they always did. It’s just their church home that they moved. Sometimes I ask what is at … Continue reading »
Defeated and undermined…but loving it!
A university can only do its job if it is an environment which, in amongst everything else that it does, also allows for the repeated defeat of illusions, the repeated undermining of inadequately responsive ways of thinking and acting. I came across this quotation from Peter Higton in his Grove booklet on ‘Vulnerable Learning’ while I … Continue reading »
Candyfloss God
It is a perennial question for me whether God wants those experiences which we perceive to be negative to play a part in our lives. I know many people who will vehemently deny this. God, they say, created all things perfectly and thus that is the state he intends and desires for humans to experience … Continue reading »
Cautious writers be warned!
Image: healingdream / FreeDigitalPhotos.net If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticised, he will never write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some people will condemn. Thomas Merton in ‘New … Continue reading »
