Theology with Meat

Luigi Amaduzzi The Guardian ,  Wednesday 3 March 2004 Article history A culinary abomination? I wish to declare an interest. I have always been in love with good food. The real thing. For this reason, years and years ago, when I first came to the UK, I adored a good plate of British roast beef or steak and kidney pie followed by a hearty portion of bread and butter pudding. I will never forget that, as a young student in the early 50s, when I was at a college in Mumbles, a small Welsh village, now famous for having given birth to Catherine Zeta-Jones, I relied on fish and chips wrapped in newspaper from a local fish and chip shop to keep me going. How good they were. Those who criticise British food are in the wrong. I believe that many British dishes, when properly and freshly prepared with the correct ingredients, are quite delicious. In my role as ambassador, when I have entertained Italian guests in this country, I have often served British dishes so as to of...

Why pray? Here are ten reasons [by superb blogger Ben Myers, www.faith-theology.com ]: 1. Our Father who art in heaven Because without prayer there is only – myself. Between the heaven of prayer and the hell of the self there is no middle way. The more I try to find myself, the more I am lost. To call on God as Father is to discover myself as someone God calls  child . 2. hallowed be thy name Not because prayer will give me what I want, but because it will knead and pummel my wants, stretching them my whole life long, until at the last hour of my life I have learned to want one thing only, the only thing worth having. And so my whole life becomes a secret sigh, an inarticulate utterance of the hidden Name of God. And so even my death will be my prayer, the sigh by which I give myself up into the presence of the holy Name. 3. thy kingdom come Because my prayer encompasses not my own life only but the entire world of which I am a part. What defines this world is scar...

www.guardian.co.uk The man survived inside his car by eating snow. Doctors said he may have hibernated, like a bear. Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/Reuters A Swedish man who spent two months snowed inside his car as temperatures outside dropped to -30C is "awake and able to communicate", according to the hospital treating him, where stunned doctors believe he was kept alive by the "igloo effect" of his vehicle. The man, believed to be Peter Skyllberg, 44, who was found near the north-eastern town of Umeå on Friday by passers-by, told police he had been  in the car  since 19 December without food, surviving only by eating snow and staying inside his warm clothes and sleeping bag. Dr Ulf Segerberg, the chief medical officer at  Noorland's University Hospital , said he had never seen a case like it. The man had probably been kept alive, he said, by the natural warming properties of his snowed-in car which would have acted as "the equivalen...

Research offers insight into who is the most effective evangelist to take the gospel to your friends and relatives. The answer might surprise you. It’s you.  A 2004 survey of Seventh-day Adventists in North America showed that most people who joined the church did so because of a friend or relative. So if relationships are the most effective form of evangelism and ministry, our denomination, then, should focus on developing disciples and teaching relationship-based ministry. This doesn’t cost much money, just an open heart. It’s about authentic relationships, not programs. I travel around the world training people in evangelism and church growth. I usually begin my seminars by asking the question, “Who is the most effective evangelist?” I always get the same predictable answers – names of TV evangelists: Doug Batchelor, Walter Pearson, Mark Finley, Alejandro Bullòn, Dwight Nelson, etc. But then when I ask how people come to the Lord and the church, I get wildly di...

Exciting news this past week from Trixi, who has now officially been addmitted by LLU as a post-graduate student for the International Master of Public Health - MPH [Lifestyle Medicine].  Collonges-sous-Salève,  France, Summer 2012-2015   *  *  Accredited  by Western Association of  Schools  and Colleges (USA) and by Council on Education for Public Health (USA) In partnership with Adventist University of France, The Health Ministries Departments of the Euro-African and Trans-European Divisions  of the Seventh-day Adventist Church We are thankful for God's providential direction for our lives, as we serve Him!  

by: Dr Laurence Turner MICAH 6. 8  A nervous theology student stands outside the Pastoral Resource Centre at Newbold College. He raises his hand to knock on the door, then has second thoughts. For he knows what awaits him inside. Just a few days before he’d preached his heart out, in the Homiletics class, to a room full of his class mates. And to a video camera. And now, on the other side of that door, judgement will be passed. For beyond that door is a monitor. And a video player. And me. Even the most self-confident knocks timidly at the door. Once seated in front of the monitor, I run the tape for a few minutes, and invite the student’s self-assessment. Some have gripped the arms of their chair as if they are being executed. One held his head in his hands. One actually asked – ‘Is that me ?’ Another asked, ‘Do I have to watch it?’ Such occasions produce almost universal humility. But one day a young student, full of the joy of the Lord, sat down to engage in se...