Darryl had some really good stuff to say about a letter he received recently:

My tradition is concerned about being right. It’s becoming more and more obvious to me that we can be right on all sorts of issues and still be so very wrong. I really wonder if God is as concerned about what we […]

I just found a new blog called Jagged Mind which speaks to some of the challenges for the emerging church.
Anyway, there is some interesting stuff there in the couple of posts there so far, as evidenced by this quote:

Seems to me that what the early church offered and what the modern church offers is totally […]

I was impressed by this article which I was alerted to via Kingdom Come. This is an article by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster in relation to questions of ethics in new technology. He says in part:

What does this say about the sanctity of human life, and its transmission? When are we […]

I have been reading Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-wage USA by Barbara Ehrenreich. The book is about the author’s attempt to live and survive on minimum wage jobs and experience how the other half lives. She tells the story of wanting to go out and amuse herself one night after spending the […]

This weekend we had a couple of days of rest without computers and phones and those other intrusive modern devices.
I have been re-reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - we are discussing it for our book group at our congregation Haven on Thursday. I have always loved this book, but I was particularly struck […]

I really like this:
So God explained what he wanted. “We’re having a relationship, right? So you should bring me flowers once a week,” he said, “And remember to ask how my day was. Yeah, and I want to be monogamous, so stop eyeing up other gods. And on our anniversary? I’d like jewellry or chocolates. […]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King

Forgive me for my geeky behaviour. But all this talk about creeds means that I have to post this from babylon5.
Declaration of Principles — Interstellar Alliance
The Universe speaks in many languages,
but only one voice.
The language is not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari.
It speaks in the language of hope
It speaks in the […]

Christians whose loyalty to the Prince of Peace puts them out of step with today’s nationalistic world, because they are willing to love their nation’s friends but not to hate their nation’s enemies, are not unrealistic dreamers who think that by their objections they will end all wars. On the contrary, it is the soldiers […]

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was […]