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14th November – Pete Ward. ‘Eucharist as Production, Text and Audience’ King’s College London, Franklins Wilkins Building, Classroom 2.4327th February – Rev Dr Steven Croft, Fresh Expressions
21st May – Rev Dr Steve Griffiths, Ridley Hall’s Director of Youth Work
Training / Editor of The Journal of Youth and Theology< Time: 11.15-12.30 (bring a sandwich for lunch afterwards!)
Location: Waterloo Bridge Building, King’s College London Map link: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo-det.html Continue reading »
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Living in Los Angeles as a church planter, and having helped to start a church in Hollywood as well as West LA, I have seen the importance of engaging in bilingual theological reflection. Having lived and visited different parts of the world, it doesn’t take long to recognize that each city and area has a distinct cultural ethos. Bilingual theological reflection is the task of recognizing the grammar of the dominant culture, as well as the grammar of God so that we can better embody the good news in the context in which we find ourselves. Kenneson in Life on the Vine states, “Every generation in every culture must take up the hard work of discerning the opportunities for and the obstacles to embodying the gospel faithfully in that place and time.” (241) One of the ways to engage in the art of bilingual theological reflection and thereby better construct a local theology would be to have the local congregation consider four primary questions:
1. If God’s reign were to be fully realized in our neighborhood, what would be different?
2. What are the kinds of idols in our neighborhood that need to be unmasked?
3. What aspects of Christ’s rule do people in our neighborhood need to experience or see?
4. What narratives, practices, convictions and institutions might challenge these idols and more faithfully express the kingdom of God? Continue reading »
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I sit down to write this just having returned from the hospital where I spent some time with a precious family who are walking courageously through the most profound difficulty. Jason, a husband, son and father of two young boys was taken off of life support today following a 17 day battle for his life in intensive care after a terrible car accident. Jason attended the high school youth group I used to lead and I had the privilege of officiating at his wedding. More poignantly, Jason’s mother was the woman who gave all three of my children their first bath as the lead nurse in the nursery at Cottage Hospital where they were all born. She stood beside me as I welcomed all three of my children into the world. Today, I stood beside her as she prepared to say goodbye to one of her’s. Continue reading »
