The War in Iraq - What Cost?

Jim Wallis has long ploughed a
lonely furrow in the U.S...that
of a radical evangelical, as committed
to liberation and social justice
as he is to an evangelical understanding
of the Christian story...He has, since
the 1970s exemplified God's bias to the
oppressed, not least through the Sojourners
community and then the Sojourners magazine.
Where many self-proclaimed American
evangelicals have aligned themselves with
the xenophobic 'tea party' Wallis has been
a close friend to Barak Obama...

Check out the Sojourner's blog that I've
highlighted here on 'Believing in the City'
Here Wallis offers a sad and reflective
'obituary' to the debacle of the Iraq war
and the catch 22 in which his friend Barak
Obama found himself....

http://blog.sojo.net/2010/09/01/the-war-in-iraq-at-what-cost/

The New Colonialism?

FASTING FOR JUSTICE

Ramadan, the month of fasting within Islam, begins today.

A time to step back and pray...
A time to work for justice....
A time of self-sacrifice....
A time to look inwards....
A time to decide what really matters...

Within the Hebrew scriptures the prophet
Isaiah speaks of the kind of fast that God
wants...'The kind of fasting I want is this:
Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke
of injustice and let the oppressed go free.'

In a diverse city how might people from all
faiths and none catch the vision of Ramadan
and of Isaiah...the fast of relationship-building
and social justice...That's the kind of fast
we need...especially as tens of thousands in
Pakistan see their lives washed away in the
flood waters....

Ramadan Mubarak.........

GLOBAL VOICES.....

A cooperative blog that foregrounds hidden or marginalised
stories and voices....

Where do we get our information from?
How do we make up our mind who to listen to?
Whose voices are heard most loudly?

Global Voices reminds us that we always have to
decide who to listen to when we think about faith
in the city...

Who do you listen to and why?

http://globalvoicesonline.org

Church minister to tweet Holy Communion to the faithful - Telegraph

Can the solidarity symbolised by Holy Communion
be virtual...mediated through a PC screen? In what
the sociologist Grace Davie calls a 'believing not
belonging' society might a 'Twitter Lords Supper'
be a culturally appropriate medium of grace for
those attracted to the person of Jesus but switched
off the church? Alternatively is a Tweeted Holy
Communion little more than a retreat from community?
Is this a fresh expression or just a desperate attempt
to look cool and 'down with the IT Crowd'? The Daily
Telegraph newspaper reports the story...What do you
think?



Church minister to tweet Holy Communion to the faithful - Telegraph