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First an apology. This poor blog has been very neglected over the last few months. But, I do have 2 good excuses.
Firstly, I have been getting in all my work for my end of 2nd year degree. This has included 2 3000 word essays, one on Social and political context (not very exiting, but important), and one were I interviewed a ‘New Age’ person and reflected on it (quite interesting). On top of this was my fieldwork folder (about 10’000 words) that will hopefully lead to my JNC had to be in.

My second excuse, one that over shadowed all my college work, was the arrive of Isaac and Reuben Tilley. They were premature and so lead to lots of trips into the Exeter Hospital.
So I have decided that I try to be a little more dedicated to the blog and will start by sharing with you my sharing my summer reading.

I am currently reading Doug Pagitt’s book A Christianity Worth Believing. Its quite an interesting idea for a book, to sum it up I would say it Pagitts story of finding faith and the struggles he has had on his journey. Yet it is also the idea that we are in a new mission context then that of the past when theologies were developed and that we how have to develop appropriate theology for our current contact. he argues that we still still hold a Platonic Greco-Roman theology and subsequent world view that is inaproprate for our context.

You can download 3 free chapters of the book here.

Other readings:

NT Wight book Suprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. I am also making my way through his John for Everyone

Shane Claiborne & Chris Haw’s book Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity by Ronald J. Sider

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