Author Archives: mike

Iceland as a mini-me of the world economy

I don’t know anything about the source of this article http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland on Iceland but it shows in microcosm what is actually going on in the world economy. Collapse is inevitable and has been for some time and the story in Iceland is typical of HOW the white-anting has occurred. It may well be that we [...]

Newcastle mini-muster

Last weekend I gave a talk about Christian Community in urban environments at ‘mini-muster‘. A topic like that could be mere talk-fest material except that it wasn’t – because it was happening in the context of community of people who genuinely want to be like Christ and have been working at that together for quite [...]

being personal

It occurred to me a few months back that … faith*, hope and love are like a colour-space of personhood. That is if you were painting a personality you could do it in colours composed from faith, hope and love. Or we could think of them as another three dimensions (along with space and time) [...]