Orthodox emerging missional dialogue

Record review: “Story” by The Sout Project
I’m not really the right person to ask to write record reviews, and I’ve found this one very difficult to write. It’s not so much a review as my own response to the record, and to and trying to analyse my own response. Story by the Sout Project collective, was produced in Cape Town. As the producers describe it story | The Sout Project:

The Bible in five statements
My blogging friend Matt Stone of Glocal Christianity tagged me: Summarise the Bible in five statements, the first one word long, the second two, the third three, the fourth four and the last five words long. Or possibly you could do this in descending order. Tag five people. Here’s my Bible summary: Good Evil enters God sets bounds The Kingdom strikes back Whose side are you on? I tag:

The Church as the Liberated Zone
Father Daniel Syosyev, the Moscow missionary priest who was murdered last week, said something very interesting in an interview shortly before his death. He was explaining why Christians should go to Church on Sunday, and his explanation reveals something of what the Church is. You Wish to See Many Miracles – You Should Become a Missionary or a Martyr: Fr. Daniel’s Autobiography and the Interview with Him on the Occasion of the Opening of the Missionary Centre: If you will, all we Christians are terrorists. We are the members of a rebellious army, which is revolting against the prince of this worl

Father Daniel, priest and martyr
Fr Daniel Sysoyev The murder of Father Daniel Sysoyev last week has shocked Russia. Father Daniel, aged 34, was shot by a masked gunman at St Thomas’s Church in southern Moscow last week. The parish choir director, Vladimir Strelbitsky, was wounded in the shooting. Father Daniel worked in a multiethnic suburb of Moscow, where people of many different nationalities lived, including many Muslims. He was active in missio

Priest shot in Moscow
I received the following e-mail from Fr Maxim Obukhov of Moscow: Fr Daniel Sysoev shot in Moscow Fr Daniel Sysoev was of Tartar origin (ethnic Tartar, turk people in the east of Russia, mostly muslems) had Muslem background. He knew Islam and Tartar culture and was active missionary, wrote some Christian polemic books about Islam. His books were not agressive against Islam and muslems, but it was regular missionary work. They described the difference of Islam and Christianity. Fr Daniel baptized a number of Muslems. As he wrote in his blog, that he recieved 14 threats to kill him from islamic radicals. Fr Daniel was shot