rupert on September 14th, 2008

As an a postscript to the post the other day, when my inquisitive 4 year old asked about illness, he announced as we were driving to our church gathering on Sunday:
“Mum and Dad, you know what God is doing?”
Well I was about to host the church gathering, so I was pretty intrigued at that level.  [...]

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rupert on September 12th, 2008

Apparently, I am an “Emergent Village Idiot“.
I only came across the post on a blog today, when someone clicked through and the incoming link came up on my statcounter.  The actual post is a year old, but I didn’t clock it then.  Providential?  Maybe…
So they are quoting my bio, as evidence that I am [...]

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rupert on September 8th, 2008

Following the previous post about my visit to the house of Cantle, the website for Daybreak has now gone live.  All the detail, timetable, and instructions for booking can be found there.
I really recommend the weekend course (14th - 16th November).  For Christian courses, £60 can seem more than usual, but as Jim normally [...]

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rupert on September 2nd, 2008

I have just had a lovely few hours at the House of Cantle, with Jim McNeish today.  It was a beautiful drive out of the city, up to Killin, when Pippa and I got engaged nearly 11 years ago now!  Jim has bought an old hotel near there, done it up, and made it [...]

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rupert on August 26th, 2008

If have you haven’t seen the speech given by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, at the hand-over party for London 2012, the it is really worth a quick look at this … all of it hugely entertaining, but if you are impatient, start at 3 minutes.
Wiff waff, as Boris correctly identifies, is a nickname [...]

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rupert on August 24th, 2008

That was the question that Toby, my 4½ year old son, asked a few nights ago, as he was feeling a little off colour.  Ah, I know the answer to that one, I thought.
"God doesn’t make you ill.  In fact, God is very sad that people get ill."  I said.  I wish I had [...]

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rupert on August 1st, 2008

Whatever you think of the current "revival" in Lakeland (Florida), this is a very humorous post by "Mister David" from our church. 
It made me laugh!
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on July 29th, 2008

“One of my mentors once told me that the measure of a religion in a pluralistic society is the breadth and depth of benefits it brings to its non-adherents.”
Brian McLaren in recent Blog Post

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rupert on February 22nd, 2008

Well that was the title of an email I got this week. My favourite Bishop in the Anglican church NOT going to heaven. I assumed it was some nutter who thought that God would only let the doctrinally pure into the pearly gates, and that somehow NT Wright’s theology had been found wanting in some [...]

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rupert on September 10th, 2007

Apologies folks for the complete silence on this blog the last couple of weeks.
I read somewhere that it is impossible to blog, read other blogs, and have a job and a life as well. Well the last couple of weeks I have been concentrating on job and life, and blogging and blog reading [...]

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