Comments for Gladys Ganiel

Comment on The Church is Flat, Book Review – Tony Jones on How to Move the Emerging Church from Critique to Practical Change by Tony Jones

Tony Jones — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:23:32 +0000

Thanks for the kind review. I hope to be in dialog with Doug at Greenbelt this year.

Comment on The Future of the Organised Church Part I: Are there more Christians outside the Church than in it? by jac podevin

jac podevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:43:57 +0000

the individual physical body is exchanging cells chemicals and gases constantly with all these other individual bodies – if the body of the individual can be so easily accessed it would seem that it is only our minds that make the barriers and boundaries to what is perceived to be a church of people or not- & what constitutes inside and what constitutes outside- Maybe it is impossible to put ‘oneself outside’ and for better or worse we really are all this together. Maybe if we stopped judging and measuring we might see the walls in a different way

Comment on Patrick Mitchel on Evangelical Journeys: Dublin Launch of New Book by Lyle Taffs

Lyle Taffs — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:07:43 +0000

I don’t know either of the authors personally but you have made a valuable contribution to the question of how the actually existing evangelical church sees itself. It proves to actually be more diverse than some might like or expect. You both deserve big gold stars!!

Comment on Patrick Mitchel on Evangelical Journeys: Dublin Launch of New Book by Evangelical Journeys « FaithinIreland

Evangelical Journeys « FaithinIreland — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:07:40 +0000

[...] has put up notes of my remarks at her website. It is a very good book; easy to read and full of stories of people’s journeys of faith. [...]

Comment on Jay Bakker: Book Review of Fall to Grace – Can Churches Find Enough Grace for Gay Marriage? by Richard

Richard — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:29:44 +0000

I have never been homosexual or had those tendencies, but I am someone who has been delivered from pornography addiction by the power of the blood of Jesus, so I believe I can speak about this issue and ask a few questions. Can anyone please name one obviously homosexual from the Bible who is described as a righteous person? Why would God tell the first man and woman to “be fruitful and multiply” and then confuse them by creating them to be attracted to the same sex? What scripture proves that God created men and woman to be homosexual? How could Jesus who is the finisher and author of our faith have come into existence if everyone was a homosexual? How could God make a promise to Abraham to be the Father of many nations if it is Gods will for people to be homosexual? For the record I do believe people can be born homosexual. But I also believe people are born as theives, liars, blasphemers and have a bent towards sin of all kinds because we all descended from the seed of Adam. I love Jim Bakker and I’m praying for you Jay.

Comment on Do You Understand Peter Rollins? Responding to Monty and the Talk in the Black Box by Alan in Belfast

Alan in Belfast — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:24:23 +0000

Gladys – good post.

> I have a hunch that Rollins doesn’t want us to leave a lecture or finish a book thinking that we have understood everything. He wants us to go away and start thinking more for ourselves.

I share your hunch. I think he deliberately avoids simplifying the message in order to make people have to intellectually engage with it, and to prevent the ideas being subject to lazy critique and being batted away with cheap arguments.

But there must be a Master’s dissertation for someone in picking apart the progression of the Rollins’ arguments in his talks and books over the years.

PS: We forgot to reference the very accessible tract he produced a year or two ago. I still have a couple somewhere. Should really leave them on the leaflet table in church for badness!!

Comment on Do You Understand Peter Rollins? Responding to Monty and the Talk in the Black Box by Lyle Taffs

Lyle Taffs — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:48:24 +0000

Well done Gladys. I think it is fair to say that Pete is walking new territory and in a sense is himself in a perpetual state of ‘surprise’ with the things he articulates. This is certainly not to suggest that he is making it up as he goes. To me, Pete’s greatest value comes from his preparedness to deconstruct the ‘religion of empire’ that we have been born into and go on to ask the question ‘what will faith look like in a pomo world in which the church has a major image and credibility problem?’ In this prophetic role he has much to offer. My belief is that he also has the ability to synthesize new directions. In this regard, I have asked him on Facebook to give some thoughts about what he feels his proposed New York ‘community’ will ‘look’ like – and I won’t be happy with any trite or predictable answers. I would love to write more but I am still ‘lost at sea’ and restricted to my phone.

All the best for 2012.

Lyle

Comment on Peter Rollins in Belfast 8 January – Getting the Joke of Christianity by John

John — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:30:41 +0000

Hi, I am from Australia.

Of course the tragic joke about Christian-ISM is that it aint true and very much past its useful use by date.

Here are some references which point out why.

http://www.beezone.com/up/secretsofkingdomofgod.html

http://www.beezone.com/up/forgottenesotericismjesus.html

http://www.dabase.org/bloodsac.htm

http://www.dabase.org/p5egoicsociety.htm

http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-god.aspx

The Truth About Death

http://www.adidam.org/death_and_dying/index.html

Comment on What can the Churches Learn from Zimbabwe’s Masowe Apostles?: Isabel Mukonyora Book Review, Wandering a Gendered Wilderness by just in time

just in time — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:57:30 +0000

I can confirm that all these kids who claim to know or represent the masowe churches (factions) are all good hyprocrites and the truth is not in them.They seek glory for their name sbut there is no glory they will get in the end. those who went into the sea to look for the spring that feedeth the sea failed to find one and some drowned in it.

one shall fail to understand the word & misuse it for stupid personal gains.

gladys daniel,

bless you & your reviews and studies. Do not listen to these youngsters who are thirsty & hungry for fame. Go & live the life your fathers have told you to follow.If you can’t then do not waste time learning stuff that is complex because the day you shall find the answer it will be too late to catch up with time.

ana baba nemi madzibaba enhando muri mhandu kuhushe hwababa vekudenga. mashaya zvekunyora here kana zvekuita makutengesa izwi.Munosakara vakomana. Hameno henyu ini muchabaya nyama asi mweya wababa uzere kuhumambo

Comment on Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children: Review of the Documentary by Xoliswa Sithole by Charles Mbohwa

Charles Mbohwa — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:23:30 +0000

This was a moving piece of reality work. Could not help but shed tears. Thank you for opening up more doors in our lives so that we can contribute in our own way, becoming better prople in the process.