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Here’s an interview with Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of Ruthba House, on the topic of “new monasticism”.  It’s a good introduction to the concept. What is “new monasticism” all about? The idea is that the way of life in Western culture is fragmented, and as a result Christianity seems to have fallen…

Everything, it seems, has grown worse here. The recession started earlier and its bite has been deeper. Housing prices have fallen by as much as 50 percent. Bank shares have plummeted by more than 90 percent. Unemployment is approaching 10 percent. The roots of Ireland’s fall date to more than…

I’m getting kind of tired of this blog being mostly posts from my daily del.icio.us shared items.  I thin if I were posting a couple of my own items per daily links, that would be fine, but I want visitors here to have more original thought than this. So for…

Two of the important voices in the missional church dialogue, Brother Maynard and David Fitch, interact about what it means for a church to be missional in relationship to the Sunday worship gathering. A good discussion of the false dichotomy of attractional OR missional follows, and a good discussion of…

In November, N.T. Wright gave a series of talks at the Harvard University Graduate Student Christian Fellowship entitled Reconstructing Hope. Here’s a link to each talk: * Why Do Good in a Hopeless World? * What is Good in a World that Defies Hope? * Doing Good: What Plus Hope…

IRELAND WILL see more demolition than construction of houses over the next decade, as the economy struggles to recover from the collapse of the housing market and the emergence of “zombie” banks, UCD economist Morgan Kelly told the conference. In a presentation that drew several collective intakes of breath, Mr…

The Way I See It #21 People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others. — Youssou N’Dour Musician.