Reflecting theologically on life

One of the joys of writing this blog is actually at last getting around to visiting other people's blogs and websites, trying to find out what friends and aquaintances are up to.

Our friend Simon Barrow runs the sort of website I wish I had the time and theological erudition to do myself. In part of the strap line he says this: "Religion is rarely out of the news these days. But how much of it is simply "bad faith" for humanity and the planet? ... FaithInSociety seeks a conversation between reason and hope, shaped by the subversive memory of the Gospel." The site has really good links - though of course they do tend to be culturally specific to the UK (I like that of course!) and mostly in English. Anyway I found it great to spend a bit of time there and hope some of you may enjoy it too.

For something in Spanish you could go to the Lupa Protestante site - they describe themselves as una revista al servicio de los sueños y las utopias and seem to mainly be a news service - but I like the idea of a news service serving our dreams and utopias. Just another way of talking about the commonwealth of Christ perhaps.

And finally - I really must cook us some supper and do something other than blog - Simon's quote about "the subversive memory of the Gospel" immediately made me think of my great friend Janet Lees who is a speech therapist, minister and theologian. She's just brought out a brilliant and very readable book called "Word of Mouth" which is all about using the remembered Bible to build community.
Janet's husband Bob Warwicker is an industrial chaplain. His was the first blog I ever read when he wrote while walking from Land's End to John O Groats.

Probably what I've just been doing is more to do with selling religion rather than reflecting theologically on life - sorry to use a misleading title to draw you in. I think that the commercialisation of religion, religion for sale will be an issue I'll return to following our discussions in Toulouse. Which leads me to one final link from my reading of the sexistly named New Statesman - fascinating to think of the Bible as a must have fashion accessory. I do rather wonder though about how many people actually read and understand versions of the Authorised Version today. The thees and thous are just about all right but the verb conjugations make for very difficult reading in public - especially by non native speakers.
Anyway the water is boiling - pasta for supper I think.