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New: Earthy Foundations now on!
Earthy Foundations is a new weekly gathering for young children and their carers, at Cotham Parish Church every Tuesday 10-11:30 during term
Andy Thornton
Oct 24, 20240 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Eight: Contemplative Fire (2019-20), by Tim Summers
This is the eighth and final part of this series, bringing us up to the present. It describes: the mature vision for Foundation (as a...
Ruth Edmonds
Sep 30, 20207 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Seven: Blowing on the Embers (2015-18), by Tim Summers
This is the seventh part of Foundation’s story, describing the group's rebirth in 2015 with the return of Iain and the arrival of fresh...
Ruth Edmonds
Sep 24, 20205 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Six: Evolution/Devolution (2009-14), by Tim Summers
This is the sixth part of Foundation’s story, describing the group's evolution from big alt worship services to a more level pattern of...
Ruth Edmonds
Sep 17, 20205 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Five: The Emerging Church (2006-8), by Tim Summers
This is the fifth part of Foundation’s story. This instalment covers Foundation's first creative peak culminating in the Babel service at...
Ruth Edmonds
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Four: New Beginnings, New Name (2004-5), by Tim Summers
This is the fourth part of Foundation’s story. This instalment includes the relaunch of alt worship at Cotham Parish Church in Easter...
Ruth Edmonds
Sep 3, 20204 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Three: Bristol and Resonance (2002-3), by Tim Summers
This is the third part of Foundation’s story (told in “autobiographical” form). This instalment covers the London vs Bristol church...
Ruth Edmonds
Aug 26, 20204 min read
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Foundation Story, Part Two: The Greenbelt Festival (2001), by Tim Summers
This is the second part of Foundation’s story (told in “autobiographical” form). In this instalment I describe first impressions of the...
Ruth Edmonds
Aug 22, 20204 min read
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Foundation Story, Part One: Post-Evangelicals and Alt Worship (2000), by Tim Summers
This is the story of Foundation's journey told from the only perspective I can reliably offer - my own. I have started with my...
Ruth Edmonds
Aug 14, 20205 min read
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Not quite a valediction, by Tim Summers
We are now a little over a year into Foundation in its new home at Cotham, and emerging from lockdown (hopefully just this once). During...
Ruth Edmonds
Aug 14, 20202 min read
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A review of Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth, by Julian Clover
In economics, as in religion, myths and dogma abound. In both, however, an honest and well-informed discussion of the real issues...
Ruth Edmonds
Jul 17, 20203 min read
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A reflection on Jane Kenyon, by Tim Summers
Here is one of my favourite poems by the poet Jane Kenyon (1947-1995). Twilight: After Haying Yes, long shadows go out from the bales;...
Ruth Edmonds
Jun 19, 20204 min read
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A reflection on Soren Kierkegaard, by Tim Summers
There is a passage in John Updike’s 1996 novel In the Beauty of the Lilies in which a doubting Protestant minister, Clarence, meets a...
Ruth Edmonds
Jun 12, 20205 min read
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A reflection on "Romantic Christianity" (part two), by Tim Summers
In my most recent reflection I explored the idea of “Romantic Christianity” as embodied in CS Lewis; in particular his treatment of “peak...
Ruth Edmonds
May 29, 20205 min read
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A review of Steve Chalke's The Lost Message of Paul, by Julian Clover
"It is time for a new reformation. It is time to find a way of following Christ that offers liberation and welcome rather than control,"...
Ruth Edmonds
May 22, 20202 min read
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A reflection on "Romantic Christianity" (part one), by Tim Summers
I wrote in my last reflection that my Christian faith first started to be formed, in my late teens, by "peak experiences" of...
Ruth Edmonds
May 14, 20205 min read
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Thirty Birds by Naomi Millner and Ruth Gordon - music and spoken word
For this week's reflection I would like to share with you Thirty Birds, a spoken word / musical collaboration by storyteller (and...
Ruth Edmonds
May 14, 20201 min read
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A reflection on EM Cioran's Tears and Saints, by Tim Summers
This week's reflection starts from a passage from Tears and Saints, a 1937 discussion of medieval mysticism by the Romanian philosopher...
Ruth Edmonds
May 4, 20203 min read
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A reflection on "Schopenhauerian Christianity" by Tim Summers
Now this reflection is (once again) personal to me, and I'm not offering it as a prescription for everyone or a description of what I...
Ruth Edmonds
May 4, 20204 min read
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A reflection on Julian of Norwich, by Tim Summers
In this lockdown, moving in churchy circles as I do, I have heard the name of Julian of Norwich invoked a few times. Julian was a...
Ruth Edmonds
May 4, 20202 min read
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