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• UK: Straight Couple Wants Civil Partnerships and Civil Marriage Open to All

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  In the latest challenge to what many see as unfair and restrictive marriage laws in Britain, a straight couple are attempting to register for a civil partnership. The couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, say that it is unfair that different-sex couples may enter into a civil marriage but not a civil ...
  13 hours ago

• measuring change..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  “In the long run, what counts is how the next generation thinks. How far new ideas permeate culture is not measured just by attitude change during one generation, but by what is taken for granted in the next.”Helen Haste, page 149 in The Sexual Metaphor: Men, Women, and the Thinking that Makes the Difference ...
  1 day ago

• Review: Kingdom Culture

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  Kingdom Culture: Growing the Missional ChurchAuthor: Phil WaglerWord Alive Press, 2009155 pagesANOTHER book on Missional Church? What for?And that would be the right question.There are a number of things that make this entry into the conversation unique. First, it is written by a practitioner with theological ...
  5 days ago

• joining the Apaches

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  In Inhabiting the Church Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove relates a story from John Alexander, for many years the pastor of the Church of the Sojourners in Washington, DC..“Suppose a white person went to Arizona for a weekend and came back saying he’d become an Apache. He still talked the same, he still lived in the same ...
  6 days ago

• place, modernity and abstraction

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  “Everything that the Creator God does in forming us humans is done in place. It follows from this that since we are his creatures and can hardly escape the conditions of our making, for us everything that has to do with God is also in place. All living is local: this land, this neighborhood, these [...]
  3 weeks ago

• church in the neighborhood

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  In January of 2009 a group of pastors gathered to think and dream about what it would look like for the churches in their area to come together to serve the community. They asked the mayor to join them and talk about his dream for the city. They also asked him to talk about hindrances [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Movements that Change the World - Review

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  Steve Addison. Missional Press, 2009. 142 pages. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books)  Study Guide available free.The Forgotten Ways surveyed church history, systems theory, and the practices of adaptive leadership in the context of recovering a missional ecclesiology and missional practice. Movements That ...
  3 weeks ago

• Roland Allen - Spontaneous combustion

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  Steve Addison recounts Roland Allen in the “Spontaneous Expansion of the Church.” Allen describes seven ways to inhibit growth and expansion. I list six of them here:1. when the church is dependent on paid leadership2. when the spread of the gospel is controlled  out of fear of error, and both error and godly ...
  4 weeks ago

• Deep Church - Reviews

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  I haven’t seen this title yet, but it is getting some intriguing press. Tim Keller writes,“Jim Belcher shows that we don’t have to choose between orthodox evangelical doctrine on the one hand, and cultural engagement, creativity and commitment to social justice on the other. This is an important book.”And Scot ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mission - Spirit and Word

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 128
  Last week I noted that Alan closes The Forgotten Ways with a plea that we rely more on the power of the Holy Spirit in mission. I found this intriguing, because as he begins to works out mDNA through the book (in particular the diagram on page 25), he places Jesus is Lord at the [...]
  4 weeks ago

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