Blurb that drew me in: Exploration highlights specific episodes and characters of the Biblical narrative from Moses to Herod. These details are later used as examples, specific instances, pictures in the mind, as the study group uses the re-picturing tool to explore selected expressions from theology — Messiah, demon, Immanuel, sin, grace, the divine experienced as father, the divine experienced as Christ, the divine experienced as Holy Spirit. These pages text look at various aspects of mission, drawing on both scriptural and secular sources and examples. Finally, Exploration: A Field Manual uses re-picturing to explore the idea of “church” and how it might be re-imagined — faithful to historic roots, and yet new for the new data we have. The book is quirky. To me that's a term of endearment and praise: I like quirky. In particular quirks which are related to purposes of helping the reader to engage better with the material and thoughts. The laudable purpose of the quirks of pre
Intro This is a paper I wrote for a recent gathering of people involved in thinking about spiritual accompaniment in our region. Reading Jane Shaw's volume , I was struck what a different world it addresses. Not only is my class background not really represented (it's all seems quite middle/upper class). I was largely left feeling that this is spiritual practice that seems quite detached from much of the lived reality of the nation that I read recently about in The People [The Rise and Fall ofthe Working Class 1910-2010] . The exception is to some extent is Percy Dearmer. These are people also who lived and worked in a world also where CO2 was below 350ppm (it’s now 420+) and the climate was still the relatively stable holocene we came to know and mostly love (yes, even in Britain!) My fear is that to continue to think along the same trajectory as these mid-20th century pioneers would be to isolate Christian spirituality from the most important and momentous features of wha