What has Nietzsche to do with Christmas? And what has either to do with rock bands, HIV and clean water? In a word: hope. Having just described generosity as one of the highest virtues of the church, one of the surest signs that a community is following Jesus, we turn now to the content of...
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Turning Theology into Church 05: Gratitude
What sort of community should grow out of the biblical story? A grateful one. In this episode we explore the concept of hesed – the Hebrew word usually translated as “steadfast love.” It is used throughout the Bible to describe the fundamental nature of God and is meant to explain why God is so committed to the work of...
Turning Theology into Church 04: Ordaining Everyone
For centuries, “Kingdom work” was synonymous with the stuff pastors do – preaching, sacraments, general church-running… This was the “eternal” work done for God, and the province of a small minority of God’s people who were “ordained” to the role. “Secular” work was what one did for money, not an equally important embodiment of Jesus’s ministry of...