By: Colleen Batchelder on June 12, 2019
Welcome to London – a place that’s decorated in splendor and infiltrated by diversity. This week’s assignment delves into the varied facets of the local watering holes, the tree-lined streets, and the echoing sounds of change that reverberate upon the walls of the London Underground. Orin Hargraves and Terry Tan envelop us in the varied…
By: Karen Rouggly on June 11, 2019
In a sermon a few years ago, Mike Ashcraft, Pastor of Port City Community Church preached a sermon on the concept of Encounter –> Formation –> Expression.[1] Essentially, the concept is that as we go about our day to day lives, we are encountering new things all the time. These encounters lead to a space…
By: Greg on June 11, 2019
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By: Jennifer Williamson on June 11, 2019
My husband is a five on the enneagram. That means he likes to be “in the know.” He’s the kind of person that would eat up books like Culture shock! London and Culture Shock! Great Britain. These books explain everything from how to hail a taxi to what to wear to different social events. I…
By: John Muhanji on June 10, 2019
I am amazed by this fascinating book where Ian S. Markham and Joshua Daniel summarizing the writings of Martyn Percy. The writing of Martyn Percy is seriously engaging and how they weave through my African Quaker theology. It reminds me that when the early Quaker missionaries arrived in Kenya to establish the first Quaker church…
By: Mark Petersen on June 10, 2019
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By: Jason Turbeville on June 10, 2019
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By: Trisha Welstad on June 9, 2019
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By: Kyle Chalko on June 9, 2019
This might have been a book I should have bought a physical copy of. I was only a little familiar with Martyn Percy before this assignment. In fact in took me a minute to recognize the name. I actually have used one of Martyn Percy’s books in the specific research for my dissertation. Percy’s book…
By: Wallace Kamau on June 8, 2019
The whole idea of the church being Christ’s witness in the World has been a divisive issue based on the differing hermeneutical understanding of the bible and its application. This is a matter that has been controversial and divisive in the history of the church. The scribes and pharisees questioned Jesus’s interaction and association with…
By: Digby Wilkinson on June 8, 2019
Martyn Percy is possibly one of the most interesting ministry leaders I have met. I have every reason to doubt that he will remember me, but I did spend a day with him while I was Dean of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Being the Dean of a cathedral is one thing, while being the…
By: Jean Ollis on June 7, 2019
As I was researching the writings of Martyn Percy I unearthed our very own Dr. Jason Clark’s PhD thesis, Evangelicalism and Capitalism: A reparative account and diagnosis of pathogeneses in the relationship and was excited to learn that Dr. Clark relied heavily on Martyn Percy’s writings and methods for his thesis. In fact, Percy…
By: Tammy Dunahoo on June 7, 2019
XIII. MODERATION We believe that the moderation of the believer should be known of all men, that his experience and daily walk should never lead him into extremes, fanaticism, unseemly manifestations, back- biting, murmurings, but that his sober, thoughtful, balanced, mellow, forgiving, and zealous Christian experience should be one of steadfast uprightness, equilibrium, humility, self-sacrifice…
By: Greg on June 7, 2019
Reading into stories has been an aged old past time whether we are talking about the stories of the Bible or stories of history. Our contextual lenses diffuse those stories to understandable and manageable for our brains to grasp and draw analogies from. Recognizing that this is something all of humanity participates in, willingly or…
By: Jason Turbeville on June 7, 2019
Part of my journey to faith was spent in the Episcopalian tradition. My father and step mom went to St. Andrews Church in downtown Ft. Worth and while I lived with them of course, I went with them. My last day inside St. Andrews was my senior year of high school in February of 1989,…
By: Trisha Welstad on June 7, 2019
Tom Camacho’s new book, Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders Through Coaching makes a case for the need for coaching for pastors and leaders. Having wise guides outside one’s context who can probe toward growth and development is not only helpful, it can save much time, pain, and redirection in ministry. As Camacho says in…
By: Mark Petersen on June 6, 2019
Learning from ethnography, where an anthropological lens assists in clarifying spiritual questions, seems to be a key approach of Martyn Percy, Anglican theologian and ecclesiologist, and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. “Show us what you do, and I will tell you what you believe,” he seems to be saying. In a collection of essays and…
By: Shawn Hart on June 6, 2019
I am not sure about the rest of you, but I am a visualist. To be honest, I don’t think that is even a real word, but what I mean by it is that I try to visualize things in my head all the time; especially, I want to visualize the bible…
By: Sean Dean on June 6, 2019
There is a practice in the US and the UK of asking politicians if they know the price of a gallon of milk. This is a test to see how in touch they are with the tasks of life that the average person has to endure. It can be a massive blunder if a politician…
By: Harry Edwards on June 6, 2019
It took me a while to think of what I was going to write this time. I’m embarrassed to admit that I had not heard, much less know about Martyn Percy when I have been an ardent admirer of the University of Oxford and the stellar alumni and faculty it produces, some of whom have…
