Thinking Aloud
Faith, life science, society, the universe, people, humour, God.
Where in the world?
The typical DramatisDei customer lives in the UK or on the west coast of the USA or around the Great Lakes of USA/Canada or on the Australian East Coast or New Zealand…
Happy Christmas
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin – a sentimental atheist song about Christmas. It’s very good really, if a little odd. Discuss.
Satnavitivity
Ever wondered why the wise men were late to the birth of Jesus? Satnavitivity reveals the simple truth.
Quickfire Nativity
We love funny videos. We love the Christmas story. We love it when they go together.
Help – Christmas is coming!
Like everyone else we at DramatisDei are forced to think about Christmas sooner than we want to. Also like everyone else we want to complain about it. Moan moan moan.
Insured against rapture
The end of the world didn’t happen – but apparently it will later this year. How are you prepared for the end? Some people have got rapture insurance, others have got pet care arrangements. Should we laugh or cry?
Is the climate changing? It depends how you ask the question!
A poll reveals that those on the right of American politics are more inclined to believe in climate change than global warming. It’s all in the wording!
A hell of a debate 2 – love wins what?
The debate over Rob Bell’s “Love Wins” has raised some interesting issues, in particular this one – what did Christ save you from or to? Is my salvation the same as yours?
The minor skirmish of the church door
Your church is open and very very busy – but does the rest of the world know it is open? How does your church look from the street? This is the sad story of one man’s petulant battle with the church door.
When is Easter this year?
Whenever two or three Christians gather together they ask themselves one question – when is Easter this year? That festival appears to bob about almost randomly. So – when is Easter this year? And why?
Epiphany, the BBC Nativity and the Star of Bethlehem
The Epiphany is when we celebrate the Magi visiting the new-born king. But what was this star they followed? The BBC Nativity suggested a conjunction of planets. Have they got it right?
Epiphany and the walls look bare
Epiphany is the traditional ending to Christmas, but as the pretty lights and colourful decorations get stowed away for eleven months the walls look kind of bare…
How to make advent shine at your church
Advent is a fantastic ready-made theme – the light coming into the darkness of the world, complete with candles as a twinkly visual aid. The question is, how do we make it that little bit different from last year so that people keep listening? Fortunately others have walked there before and left us the fruits of their labours.
Have an ethical Christmas!
Could ethical gifts give you a new perspective this Christmas? As the economic conditions continue to looks gloomy and the factories of southern China struggle to cater for all our crazy advertisement-fuelled whims this festive season, the ethical gift catalogues blossom. Here is a pick.
Does your youth group have a legal name?
A Christian youth project in Sheffield has been threatened with legal action by an American Christian television station because its name is already registered by the station. Should a church have to check such names? Should big Christian organisations act this way?
Faith and science for beginners
If we are to understand the world we live in, we are going to need science to tell us how it works and faith to help us understand the meaning and purpose. The Test of Faith course goes beyond the increasingly entrenched opinions (think Dawkins and creationism) and helps people think intelligently about some of the most important issues of our time.
Twitter communion cancelled
When is communion not communion? When is the body of Christ too disembodied? Can a community be virtual? As its first Twitter Communion is called off the Methodist Church is struggling with some very modern theological questions.
My Gospel Right or Wrong
As an amusing diversion, take a dip into a blog which tells how “Frisby Independent Baptist Church has been fighting the forces of modernism, liberalism and decidedly suspect Anglo-Catholicism for four centuries.”. It made me smile anyway.
Prince Charles, the environment and our soul
The Prince of wales thinks our society has a big inner problem: a disconnection between humanity and nature, a collective loss of soul.
