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Continue reading →: Who built the Kaaba?I’ve always been curious about why Muslims regard the Kaaba as sacred, especially since it was a pagan temple before Muhammad’s conquest of Mecca. To gain insight, I asked some Muslim friends about it. They explained that Muslims believe the Kaaba was originally built by Ibrahim and Ishmael as a…
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Continue reading →: Ritual is not always meant to make us feel comfortable“For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by all…
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Continue reading →: Do Not Conform“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2) Now, what would it imply if we recognised some of the dominating…
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Continue reading →: When everything falls dark and lifelessFrom the words received by John, the seer, in a vision: “Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.” (Revelation 2:5) When I find my…
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Continue reading →: Why it is important to recognise there are diverse sources of diversity.When it comes to contextualising Christianity and everything that entails I find it is important to recognise that there are diverse sources of diversity within contemporary society. Too often Christian missional literature focuses on culture purely in terms of nationality or ethnicity. But I find it is often just important…
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Continue reading →: An ancient commentary on Christian unity and cultural diversityHave you ever read The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus? If you haven’t you should, as it includes ancient commentary on Christian unity and cultural diversity that is just as relevant for today as it was when it was written in the second century. Mathetes (which means disciple in ancient…
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Continue reading →: How do you pray?I was recently asked, how do you pray, personally? In answer I said, prayer is a fluid thing for me. I do not set aside specific times for prayer, but pray most days, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes for more than an hour at a time. I find outdoors…
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Continue reading →: A. E. Waite on The Hanged ManHere’s what Arthur Edward Waite had to say about The Hanged Man in the Pictorial Key to the Tarot: “He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is embedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred…
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Continue reading →: The Art of IndifferenceThis image, by yiuokami, is called “In Difference”. The artist explains the symbolism as follows: The radiant angel Inspired by a text in the bible that says the devil will present himself as an angel of light. It can be interpreted as the manifestation of all that is wrong with the human…
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Continue reading →: Does a geographic focus hinder churches in reaching demographic based cultures?I recently attended a Forge workshop where Allan Hirsch spoke on cultural distance as a barrier to the sharing the good news of Jesus with the world and the inconvenient truth that 80% of the energy of most churches went into reaching the 20% of their culture that was culturally…
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