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Journeying with Jesus in John: #ECG2012 Bible Studies: Day 4: In the Family ...the Presentation

A number of people have asked me to share the keynote presentations for the Bible Study series I did at the ECG Conference in Scarborough over the last few days.

Not sure how much help the raw visuals are...but here they are.

You can download MP3s/CDs/DVDs for the series from only £2 here

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Pete

http://pmphillips.posterous.com/journeying-with-jesus-in-john-ecg2012-bible-s-66230

Journeying with Jesus in John: #ECG2012 Bible Studies: Day 3: In the Dark ...the Presentation

A number of people have asked me to share the keynote presentations for the Bible Study series I did at the ECG Conference in Scarborough over the last few days.

Not sure how much help the raw visuals are...but here they are.

You can download MP3s/CDs/DVDs for the series from only £2 here

ECG_Day_3.mov Watch on Posterous

Pete

http://pmphillips.posterous.com/journeying-with-jesus-in-john-ecg2012-bible-s-91095

Journeying with Jesus in John: #ECG2012 Bible Studies: Day 2: Welling Up ...the Presentation

A number of people have asked me to share the keynote presentations for the Bible Study series I did at the ECG Conference in Scarborough over the last few days.

Not sure how much help the raw visuals are...but here they are.

You can download MP3s/CDs/DVDs for the series from only £2 here

ECG_Day_2.mov Watch on Posterous

Pete

http://pmphillips.posterous.com/journeying-with-jesus-in-john-ecg2012-bible-s-50601

Journeying with Jesus in John: #ECG2012 Bible Studies: Day 1: First Impressions ...the Presentation

A number of people have asked me to share the keynote presentations for the Bible Study series I did at the ECG Conference in Scarborough over the last few days.

You can download MP3s/CDs/DVDs for the series from only £2 here

ECG_Day_1.mov Watch on Posterous

http://pmphillips.posterous.com/journeying-with-jesus-in-john-ecg2012-bible-s

The Story of "Fired up! Ready to go!" - Obama and Cameron on God and Easter #digidisciple @godandpolitics

A great video here which arrived in my Twitter timeline via an ObamaTweet.  I love it. Great image, great message, great involvement. Got me fired up, I can tell you!!!

via youtube.com

What I think is intriguing is what is going on with God and Religion on different sides of the Atlantic.

The other day, GodandPolitics released a transcript of Cameron's address to a gathering of Christians from Church and Charity. It seems that the speech was adlib because he says he is going to make three points and makes about seven, in places it doesn't make sense and in total its a bit of a disaster from oratorical viewpoint.

Cameron argues that Easter is about hope - but a hope in a resurrection he has bog problems with. A hope therefore which he doesn't think really exists.  He wants to embrace religion and makes some key statements about faith schools, the fightback against militant secularism and even wearing crosses at work...even Bideford gets a mention.  But I am not convinced.  Not at all.

On the other hand, Obama made a polished and professional speech at the Third Annual Prayer Breakfast.  It is wonderful - great flourishes, great sentiment, declarations of faith and a deep understanding of the tradition which he is inheriting.  Very impressive.  Obama does God and does God well.  Compared to Cameron, he is streets and streets ahead!

I wonder whether Obama will push this further as a way of countering Romney's (Mormon) faith. We have already seen how the evangelicals are wary of Romney.  But since they are wary of Obama as well, his campaign HAS to refocus on his Christian identity and in embracing the Christian evangelicals.  I wonder whether he will pull it off?

Cameron - well, whatever the good Anglicans are teaching him in West London...I think he needs to listen up a bit more in church on Sunday!

Pete

http://pmphillips.posterous.com/the-story-of-fired-up-ready-to-go-obama-for-a

Art simply goes beyond words - a response to some conversation @transpositions blog

I did a guest article yesterday over on Transpositions blog.  It was about Art and Embodiment and Digital Culture.  The conversation has been going on ever since with some fascinating comments (38 so far!). I am particularly intrigued by Sam, a Mennonite contributor who just doesn't get my aversion to words and who sees words as central to our understanding of God - much more than images.  I've experienced the same here in Durham too.

This picture of shells on the beach at Lindisfarne cannot be put into words but says so much to me of everything that I love about God and his creation.

 

Well, I thought I would put a link to the article so that you could enjoy the conversation but I also wanted to give a litany of thanks to those who go beyond words:

 

I'm so glad that everything isn't limited to words. I am so glad that words do not mediate my experience of the divine or of his creation. I am so pleased that God has written himself and his imagery into everything I see. I simply do not agree that we need to be bound by words as the conveyors of all meaning. Thank God for the mystics and for apophatic theology. Thank God for the cloud of unknowing. Thank God that he is beyond words. Thank God for sign language, indeed for signs of any kinds like rainbows and hearts and fish and the cross which convey more than words could ever say. Thank God for artists of every hue who put into their creations that which words could not possibly convey. I'm with the post-structuralists who see in our fealty to words simply logocentricism as a cipher for the power of the rational over the experiential.  But then I would...

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