Shine like the Christ Divine

I was struck by some of the lyrics in a new song that I heard sung in worship recently: Now is the time for us to shine. Shine with the face of Christ divine. No compromise, for all heaven cries. Now is the time. I quite liked it – not sure why!

OK, So I did the “Which Theologian are you?” quizz too.

And here are the results. Pity I’ve not read any Jürgen Moltmann … yet! You scored as Jürgen Moltmann. The problem of evil is central to your thought, and only a crucified God can show that God is not indifferent to human suffering. Christian discipleship means identifying with suffering but also anticipating the new creation [...]

Servant Leadership

I found this Twelve-Step Discipline for Practicing a Life-Giving use of Power, which I think is quite nice. I was looking for some stuff about a theology of Servant Leadership and it came up. It seems to fit quite nicely with my theology of atonement (or at least it doesn’t clash) and also my ethics [...]

One Way Theology

This is another phrase that I thought up recently. I don’t know if anyone else has thought of it before. What I mean by it is: The idea that theological ideas can only flow one way e.g. from the old to the young, or from the clergy to the people. Sounds like a good phrase [...]

A phrase I thought up…

I thougth of this phrase the other day when I was in a fieldwork tutorial for college. I’d like to do some more thinking about it and dig a bit below the surface of what it could mean. Since I’m not likely to do that in the near future due to the redicilous amount of [...]