America and Britain: some comments arising from Phyllis Tickle on an 18-month window

Phyllis Tickle has written an intriguing post on the Emergent Village Blog.  Here’s a sample: Within the next eighteen to twenty-four months, denominations and established communions and the Christians who constitute them will decide, consciously or simply by default, whether “church” is first and foremost an experience of communal bonding, spiritual and religious expression, growth in [...]

In the wake of recent debates on assisted suicide…

This is a must-read. HT to Doug Chaplin.

Mac OS X 10.6

The announcement this week that Apple were releasing the latest update for the Mac operating system has been much reported. Apple stated a while ago that this latest release was more about refinements than new features, but sometimes refinements are better. The upgrade price from Leopard is merely £25, which raises the question as to [...]

The Bible in One Hour: Talks 1 – 5 are now available.

Simon Taylor (partner in crime at virtualtheology.net and elsewhere) is drawing his summer series, The Bible in One Hour, to a close next week with a final talk on the Book of Revelation. However, five of the six talks are now available on the website for downloading on virtualtheology.net together with the associated handouts. They [...]

The Bible in One Hour – first talk now available

Simon’s first talk in the current virtualtheology.net series, The Bible in One Hour, is now available on the website. Thanks to Niall Briggs for providing the server space. The talk deals with the whole Bible. Following talks will take a particular book as their focus.