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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Sep 17, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Sep 3, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Aug 22, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Aug 14, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
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;...
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Ruth Edmonds
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 29, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
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,"...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 14, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 4, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Ruth Edmonds
- May 3, 2020
- 2 min
A reflection on Gift by Czeslaw Milosz, by Tim Summers
Here is one of my favourite poems by the Catholic poet Czeslaw Milosz. Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden....
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