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The Future Question: Brian McLaren
The Future Question: Brian McLaren. A New Kind Of Christianity. Wednesday Koinonia notes prepared by Leanne Thomas What about the Future? The Last Times? Prophecy? The Millenium? The Second Coming of Christ? Judgement Day? Brian McLaren has little time for the usual ways the Future Question has been approached by churches in the past. He […]
The Sex Question (Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity, chapter 7)
(Handout for the Wednesday Koinonia group, 28 November 2012) The Sex Question A New Kind of Christianity – Chapter 17 Fundasexuality – A combative form of religious fundamentalism that preoccupies itself with sexuality… it declares war on those that differ (p. 235) McClaren’s questions with respect to sexuality: Greco-Roman culture – a sexually charged culture […]
The Origin of the Human Race :-)
A little girl asked her mother, “How did the human race appear?” The mother answered, “God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made.” Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.. The father answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human […]
Freedom from Victimhood
I began this back in early May 2012, and came back to it early October. I don’t know why I chose to open the file – curiosity about the title ‘Freedom from victimhood’ and what on earth I would have written under such a title, most likely. It wasn’t finished back in May, and I […]
Jesus’ ‘Wife’ – the latest
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings  10/25/2012 The Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of “Jesus’ Wife†— Trevor W. Thompson and David C. Kneip On September 18, 2012, Prof. Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity School made public the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife†at a […]
Brian McLaren: The Gospel Question
(Prepared by Rev. Grant Stewart for the Wednesday Koinonia group 24/10/12) THE GOSPEL QUESTION: I suspect that many of us resonate with McLaren’s re-interpretation of what constitutes the Gospel – that in fact Jesus was announcing Good news†“the Kingdom of God is at hand!â€Â Like many I have grown up with the epistle to […]
Healthy New Testament Churches?
We would all love to know the answers to questions such as: ‘What is the New Testament model for church leadership (or ministry structure, or conflict resolution, or mission, or worship, or . . .)?’ ‘What are the New Testament principles for healthy church life (or for mediating divisions, or planting new churches, or . . .)?’ Or perhaps: […]
Grace Beyond Comprehension
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com John 21:15-19 is possibly the most profound story in the whole Bible. It shows the simply, well ‘extravagant’ is too small a word for it, grace of God to sinners like you and me. Jesus deliberately singles out Peter and purposefully asks him three times if he loves him. This is […]
Is God Violent?
Notes of a study led by Janice Newham on chapters 10 & 11 of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity Wednesday Koinonia:  26 sept 2012 How do you feel about those bible texts which present God as a destroyer of his enemies, violent and even genocidal? Have we wondered about a God who would […]
The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are
 Review: Jenell Williams Paris: The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are (IVPress, large-print edition, 2011). As a (‘straight’) advocate for my homosexual friends and clients part of my job is to read/discern ‘who’s saying what to whom’ about gender and sexuality issues. Together with the world-wide turmoil […]
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