Elaine Storkey: The Next Decade

Elaine Storkey has a new piece over at the fulcrum website looking at what the future may hold for the Church and culture at large.  The closing paragraph ends with a call to action and cultural engagement.  I agree with this and simply want to comment that evangelical leaders are (aim to be) pretty good [...]

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Unweaving the Rainbow

Created reality speaks and beckons a response of worship and adoration,
to the one who made all that is,
to the the one who inscribed beauty into the cosmos
Yet reductionistic scientism reduces the rainbow
to rays of light,
Beauty becoming the subjective response and not  contained within the thing itself
Thus the rainbow is unweaved,
and so is beauty.

Ok, I [...]

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Mike Goheen on the Drama of Scripture and Worldview

Thanks Steve for the link

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Idolatry of Science and Technology

I preached a sermon on the idolatry of science and technology last week. The audio can be found here, it is the evening service on 22/11/09

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College Green: Worldview Evangelism

Today I had the pleasure of sharing a few insights on mission and worldview to the members of the ‘College Green’ pastoral group at Trinity College.. This group has pioneered and developed a chaplaincy which seeks to serve and bear witness to the young people who gather outside of Bristol Cathedral. Further information can be [...]

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Who gets to narrate the world?

Jake Belder, via his blog, introduced me to the book ‘Who gets to narrate the world?’ by Robert E. Webber. My copy arrived today and I have ploughed through the first few chapters.  So far, so good. Webber encourages us to look at the comprehensive biblical narrative which is desperately needed as Christians face real [...]

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Deep Church By Jim Belcher: Part 3

Chapter 4 is entitled ‘Deep Truth’ and explores issues of epistemology.  He thinks that traditionalists have often misrepresented postmodernism and have failed to understand postmodernity as  emergent leaders understand it. Is postmodernity in all forms the enemy? Lstenign to the rhetoric of some evangelicals you would think so. However, he also criticises the emergent church [...]

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Worldview Poetry: Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold- Victorian Poet: The Buried Life
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!
I feel a nameless sadness o’er me roll.
Yes, yes, we know that we can jest,
We know, we know that we can smile!
But there’s a something in this breast,
To which thy light words bring no rest,
And [...]

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Tasty Worldview Quote

Naugle, in his significant study of the concept of worldview, describes the crucial role of stories and meta-narratives..
‘These stories that establish a symbolic world do indeed guide all forms of human activity. Worldview narratives create a particular kind of ‘mind’, and serve in a normative fashion as ‘controlling stories’. The most fundamental stories associated [...]

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Jesus and his Narrative World

Jesus and His Narrative World
Jesus, as a Jew, along with his Jewish contemporaries, was living and perceived the world as part of an unfolding story, a story which, unlike post-modern counterparts, claimed to be the true story of the world.1 This continuing narrative looks back on the relationship between YHWH, the [...]

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