As soldiers we cut a pretty big covenant (read it here). Covenant is becoming pretty big these days in the wider church…there are neo-monastic missional orders springing up all over the place. For example, the Order of the Mustard Seed originally began by the great Moravian prayer warrior, Count Zinzendorff and more recently revived through … More Articles of War
3. I believe that we should (and can) win the world Again, this is a topic that has been repeatedly accented on this blog over its however many years now. We realise that the bottom line is that its either Jesus or hell…salvation is in him alone. We don’t hide that, we declare in in … More Affirmations #3: World Winning
Some years ago, there was a lot of hype about 2020 vision in this territory. The idea is that 2020 is a number that symbolises perfect vision, but also reminds us of the fact that statistical decline shows serious consequences for the SA UKT by the year 2020. There isn’t much about this at all … More 2020 Vision
Much of life, at the moment, is about getting on with it, thankfully! I certainly don’t say that in any negative sense. As I head off to officers ‘retreat’ tomorrow I’m very much aware that I am attending as someone in a very different situation than last year, where I was regretably doubting whether I … More Primitive Assertion!
Great article by CSM Phil Wall over at the Rubicon here. Well worth a read.
Commissioner Joe Noland (blog listed to the right) has a very poignant quote at the head of his blog. It reads: “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution” – ( Hannah Arendt, historian and philosopher.) I’d say thats a fairly solid peice of truth right there. I think of … More Revolution
Today has been one of those days. You know, the kind where the worst you could expect actually happens the way you expected it would, all on the day when you could have done with something much better? Its an occupational hazard for officers to get far too ‘run-ragged’ at Christmas. I’ve really been wondering … More Incarnation
I was all of a sudden reminded this evening of Tony Blair’s ‘Big Conversation’ that he initiated. Do you remember the hype? I do, but I don’t know what happened to the conversation. Translate that into the Salvation Army context: One of the frightfully strange things about the Salvation Army culture in the UK (can’t … More The BIG conversation
The lack of blogs on this front are simply due to my internet providers inability to complete a simple task such as switching my broadband to a different number and my Scottish reluctance to spend loads of money on dial-up connection. Occassionaly I can bag some free wifi…anyway… Pretty much had the whole corps in … More The nuts and bolts
I got into a conversation with a Canadian earlier. This Canadian lives a part of Canada where, from what I can pick up, are several decent sized Salvation Army corps, a couple of social centres and one or two charity shops. The said Canadian enthusiastically shared that she volunteered at The Salvation Army. ‘Great’, I … More Church
Andrew S M Clark 