In returning and rest

I’ve just recently started writing for an online magazine called Provoketive, which is based in the U.S.  It’s exciting to be published by someone else other than me(!) and what I’m writing for that site will go to a far wider – and different – audience than I have here.  But, because what I plan … Continue reading »

Getting munched (Luke 10 still!)

This Luke 10 experiment is kind of interesting.  If you’ve only recently started to follow my blog, look for the post entitled ‘Re-entering the Biblical narrative – for real’ and that’ll give you some background to the experiment. I’m still going with the experiment.  I’m finding that the beauty of reading and rereading a text … Continue reading »

Luke 10:1-12…still living in this text!

I’m still there.  It feels like months in this text but is probably not even two weeks!  But things are changing a little. As I read it again, I’m no longer reading it in the same way.  My historico-critical faculty is dulled (which. on some occasions and for some purposes, may well be good).  Instead, … Continue reading »

Living in Luke 10:1-12…soundtrack of my life?

Living in the biblical text is something I should be used to.  I really should!  But somehow this Luke 10 experiment is harder than it looks. First of all, my flesh has an absolute horror of reading slowly.  And then rereading!  I am very nearly sick of this passage.  I don’t know what I am supposed … Continue reading »

Re-entering the biblical narrative – for real!

So, I have a plan to learn to dwell in Scripture…  However, like all plans relating to how to do church, it’s an experiment on a small-scale at the edge of the congregation.  Maybe it’ll impact me; maybe it will even be the beginning of something more widespread.  Or maybe, like some of my God-experiments, … Continue reading »