Author: KB

  • Less, Lord!

    May again: “It often occurs to me that people living in our modern, hectic civilization, amid the constant din of radio and TV, subjecting themselves to every kind of stimulation whether of the passive sort of TV or the more active sort of conversation, work and activity, that people with such constant preoccupations find it…

  • Stages of Faith – Anxiety, Church and the Freedom to Doubt

    More from ‘The Courage to Create‘ by Rollo May – an excellent book on the psychology of creativity. May was conducting some research into the roots of anxiety, and based his study on groups of teenage mothers in a shelter in New York. He was pretty sure his hypothesis – that their anxiety would be…

  • New Orleans & Baghdad – An Opportunity for Compassion?

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    Horrific scenes from New Orleans on this evening’s news… Described as a city descending into anarchy, with looting, shooting, hunger, desperation. And this displacing the earlier horrors of the stampede in Baghdad as panic about potential suicide bombers spread among the hoards of women and children marching over the Tigris to attend a major festival……

  • Modern | Postmodern / Christian | Post-Christian and other irrelevancies

    Greenbelt was a great opportunity to just chat with lots of interesting people without much pressure on time… Well done to my mum (I kid you not) for suggesting the Organic Beer Tent to Greenbelt – it was the perfect venue for such discussions. On one occasion I was talking to some of the Vaux…

  • German Edition…

    Coming out October, all being well. Google translation link added to aid any German readers…

  • A churchless Church | Die Well Here.

    Just back from Greenbelt which, again, was an excellent time to kick back and bump into all sorts of interesting people. Really enjoyed hooking up with Will, Jonny, Karen, Pete etc. One of the most interesting sessions was a panel discussion with Dave Tomlinson and Jenny McIntosh about churchless faith. Dave’s book, The Post Evangelical,…