interesting quote...

You can either be a Christian school or a school for Christians. You can't be both.
Steve Chalke.
(Quoted in Third Way - December 2008)

more on creation myths

At our last meeting on 19/11/08 we continued to think about creation myths - looking at creation myths from other faiths and cultures.

An interesting evening both to see how the Jewish/Christian creation myth shares ideas with other myths, but also how it is different.

origional sin

meeting last week - 5/11/08

Following on from the prodigal son we all looked at the doctrine of original sin. an interesting talk followed with no firm conclusions or agreements, so no change there. we did spend a fair bit of time looking at the Genesis creation story and this got us to thinking about how other cultures' creation stories might touch on the subject of sin and the way the world is. So that is going to be our topic next time.

praying the labyrinth

meeting 22/10




for this meeting we went to St John's Epping to learn a bit about the labyrinth and how it has been used in the church at different times, but principally it was an opportunity to walk it and spend some time in meditation/quite.

walking the labyrinth is an ancient practice that has been re-discovered by the modern church. a labyrinth looks like a maze but in fact has only one path.

see grace cathedral for more information.

prodigal son

meeting 8/10/08

we looked at the parable of the prodigal son. before looking at the passage we tried to see how much we could remember of the story, when we checked we were pretty close except a few of us had remembered some things that were not there! this got us thinking about sin/forgiveness and so we decided to look at original sin at our next ordinary meeting.

breathe

meeting on 24/9/08

we watched rob bell's dvd called "breathe" which was a meditation on the breath/spirit of god. the word translated breath can also mean spirit and wind - context is very important here!