1. Loving tolerance…

    Recently I attended the second Deep Church lecture of the term, with Justin Thacker discussing tolerance and political correctness. It was an interesting evening and one of many challenges. What was discussed raises several issues regarding our faith, and trying to tie them together was very hard. What I decided was to give the backbone of his arguments and then come to my own conclusions, based on what God was saying to me.

    Thacker began by talking about the most basic thing. What do we regard as tolerance? The dictionary definition is ‘to put up with, forbearance involving something you disagree with’.

    But is that what tolerance means today? Or what it meant for Jesus?
    read on…

  2. Lament…

    Tuesday 16th October was the first ‘Deep Church’ seminar of the term, Robin Parry speaking on the book of Lamentations. He posed the question “What can Christians do with the book of Lamentations?” [A reminder that the next one on political correctness and Christ is on the 30th October] James Prescott went along to the seminar and kindly wrote this piece on his reflections…

    I was unsure at first whether to write this as a straight report, but instead have decided to put down what I felt God was really speaking to me and others about.
    read on…