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As churches, along with the wider community, begin to emerge from the lockdown imposed by Coronavirus three months ago, a picture of what church will look like post-lockdown is beginning to emerge.
It was Monday 16 March 2020. It seemed impossible to imagine at the time when the official announcement came out:
4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
In his book The Brain’s Way of Healing, Dr. Norman Doidge tells the remarkable, but apparently true story of the monks of Abbaye d’En Calcat in southern France.
Reading the Bible is a tricky business.
14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee,
Mr T. chose to end our conversation on my blog last Sunday. But before “checking out” he made two final points.
Paul T.’s litany of complaints against any formal, institutional expression of religious belief, covers the gamut of villains in religious institutional life.
Karl Vaters’ point #3 may seem disheartening to those of us who labour in the church. But there may be a silver lining to this cloud. But, first we must take the cloud seriously.
Dear Stranger In The Pew,
I am sorry I did not get the chance to greet you personally over the Christmas season.
In A Spacious Place 