Dr Stephen Curkpatrick from CCTC, regularly sends around little thought provoking posts to people in our movement of Churches of Christ. The recent one I thought would be of interest to signposters who often discuss the use and place of scripture.
“In Churches of Christ identity and witness, Scripture is regarded as the primary reference point […]

Today I received the latest edition of Reo, the theological journal of the Churches of Christ Theological College  (the grand institution at which Phil completed his undergraduate study and I managed not to complete a course of undergraduate study).  One article seemed to chime in to some discussions that have happened here from time to […]

So, when Phil and I were married, we had Nick Cave’s “Into My Arms” as the bridal “march”, ie it played as I was walking into the chapel.  It was only afterwards that Phil’s aunt pointed out to us that in a wedding full of almost exclusively church people, at least half of whom were members […]

On one of our threads, we came to be discussing “internal” theological training - that is training that is conducted by a church for the benefit of its members.  As one who has undergone some theological training for my own development, I don’t profess a lot of direct knowledge of the inner workings of “internal” […]

Okay, it seems that the love that dare not speak its name is once again sin of the month at signposts.  But whenever the conversation starts about analysing 9 odd obscure verses in the bible and having arguments about the original greek and what it all meant, I am prompted to mention the elephant in […]

From a comment in one of our threads, we have a reference to this article which includes the following:

Just days before she arrived in Cincinnati, Baker prayed for two blind beggars who wandered into her tent meeting at her base in Pemba, Mozambique. Both men instantly received their sight after Baker wet her fingers with saliva […]

Last night at Tangent a conversation about spiritual disciplines and complaints about business cards rapidly deteriorated into a discussion of all kinds of different things including the Gospel of Judas, the Da Vinci Code, a missional order, the Fundamentals and theology of the cross.
Our denomination (and thus my personal theological tradition) has a belief “in […]

NT Wright from his Maundy Thursday Sermon:
“I was studying this newly discovered little tract, the ‘Gospel of Judas’, yesterday morning, and reading what some of its editors had written about it; and there crept over me the horrible sense of a lie cheerfully told, a lie which people are eager to believe, a lie which […]

An interesting question has been posed in one of the hillsongs threads:
“Does God put a stop to bad things?”
It is a question that was made in the context of what some believe are bad teachings of prosperity theology etal.. but it it is wider question than that.
If the Church is doing bad things, if the […]

Greg has sent me an article quoting Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William’s opinion that creationism (in the guise of intelligent design) should not be taught in schools.  However, I particularly liked this section of the article, on the difference between the American and the UK religious scene:

“Religion has become politicized in America. That is not […]