Monday 29 February 2016
Tuesday 9 February 2016
Sabbatical 9th February
In Cambridge today using University Library. Reading about St Paul's sense of mission and vocation and his priorities in church planting and evangelism (William Bowers). Very usefully linking in to Newbigin and to Roland Allen. Spent some time revising Newbigin paper in light of reading and thinking.
On train home reading James Massey 'Downtrodden' re the "struggle of India's Dalits'. Massey was recommended during conversation at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary. Tamilnadu Theological Seminary has a strong emphasis on empowering the Dalit as part of the Gospel. Massey engages with Dalit Theology and also Liberation Theology. He has an emphasis on theology engaging with history not concepts (sounds very Hebrew). He notes that in 1997 the Indian church was 60 % Dalit.
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Sabbatical - Day 30 - Tuesday 3rd February
Off to Cambridge today to suss out (as an ongoing resource) and work in the Library of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide at Westminster College (and where coincidentally but nicely Lesslie Newbigin studied for ordination (1933-36)) Also meeting up with Kingsley Yeboah (ordinand at Ridley Hall) for a light lunch, and with Paul and Ginny Weston.
Monday 1 February 2016
Sabbatical - Day 29 (Monday 2nd February) - Processing
We are just about over the jet-leg! Down to more reflecting today.
'Sister Wendy on Prayer' is wonderfully refreshing: "The astonishing thing about prayer is our inability to accept that if we have need of it, as we do, then because of God's goodness, it cannot be something that is difficult. Accept that God is good and that your relationship with Him is prayer, and you must conclude that prayer is an act of the utmost simplicity... 'Knock and it shall be opened to you.... What kind of God thinks of tricks, lays down arcane rules, makes things difficult? God wants to love us and to give himself... The humblest, most modest, almost Imperceptible rubbing of our fingers on the door, and it flies open." (p3)
Today I shall begin drawing my thoughts together. The title is:'What can we learn from Leslie Newbigin’ Ecclesiology for mission in Chelmsford Diocese, with especial regard to the insights of Roland Allen and the Diocesan strategy, “Transforming Presence”?'
Two more photos taken whilst on the go.
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