Tag: Rollins
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Review of Pete Rollins’ New Book: Insurrection
It’s been good getting to know Pete over the past few years. Our first books came out at pretty similar times, when we were both involved in similar projects in Ikon and Vaux, and since then I’ve come to count him as a good friend, and companion on a journey. The very nature of conversation…
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Advent[ures] in Incarnation [12] | The Wondrous Gift is Given
Whenever a gift is given, an invisible cargo is exchanged with it, loaded with semi-conscious messages about power-relations between giver and receiver. Offering an expensive gift to someone can be a power-play: I am rich enough to give you this. Even letting someone out into traffic can carry the same message: I am more gracious…
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
I’ve been really enjoying Pete Rollins’ parables recently – if you didn’t catch his Twitter parable experiment then you should follow him and catch up, or grab a copy of The Orthodox Heretic. In the same mode, this is a parable I’ve been working on based on the familiar story of the Emperor’s New Clothes.…
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Rounding Up Pirates…
One of the things I like about the web is that one can drop a pebble into it… and the ripples appear elsewhere. For those (few, I know) who may have followed here but not elsewhere, there has been quite a lot of reaction to the posts on piracy, mostly ignited by Richard Sudworth’s repost…
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Winning a Parable Competition…
My good friend Pete has posted on his blog today that I’ve won the parable competition that he and Paraclete Publishing ran over the past couple of months. It’s a real honour to have been chosen among so many great entries. As Pete and I are friends, I did just want to point out that…