General Links
This is a motley collection of links of all kinds, which I might get round to categorising at some point if it grows unwieldy. Alternative worship, theology, magazines, other folks' sites that I like - that's what's in here.
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The Magazine of Christian Unrest - this is my favourite site of all time. The Fruitcake Zone is something I'd do here if it wasn't done there. Be warned - if you send me something I think is loopy I'll forward it straight there for inclusion. |
| Greenbelt | This is the Christian Arts and Music festival. It happens each August Bank Holiday at Cheltenham Race-course, and has a program of music, worship (mostly alternative, of varying types) and seminars. A place where you can say what you think, doubt what you doubt, and listen to what you like. |
| Iona Community | In Scotland. These guys are socially and politically active, and contrary to a lot of people's assumptions they do not all live on some tiny island in a mediaeval abbey. They do have a mediaeval abbey on a tiny island, but they are also have a centre in Glasgow. My main interest in the Community is the worship material produced by the Wild Goose Worship Group - a welcome change from hymns that require a dictionary of Victorian religious language, or choruses that require the death of a few million brain cells. |
| "John Heron Project" | A very strange site by a rather strange acquaintance of mine. Make of it what you will. Nice special effects, though. |
| Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance | This is what it says. Most importantly for me it is a valuable resource of information about theological thinking in different parts of the church. It is very objective and generally doesn't judge between viewpoints. However, it couldn't find anything nice to say about Young Earth Creationism, which says more about YEC than the site. |
| The Paleogoth | This site is by a Christian geologist and Goth. Good links, lots of sensible thinking. |
| Center for Progressive Christianity | 'Encouraging churches to care about people who find organized religion irrelevant, ineffectual, or repressive'. More liberal than me (isn't that the usual definition of 'dodgy'?) ;> But very very useful if this is you. |
| Third Way | A magazine in the UK. 'Third Way is a magazine for people who haven't lost faith in God or lost touch with the world.', they say. I've always found it very good. |
| The Other Side | This is also a magazine, but the website has lots and lots of interesting information and articles about every and all issues that concern Christians today. Thoughtful. |
| Where Next | This is a site for the disenchanted. If you've recently had a crisis of faith, and find that most of what's on offer in the church isn't for you, then this site is. Still small, I hope it every success in the future. Good links, especially on alternative worship. |
| Cross Currents | the Magazine of the Association for Religion & Intellectual Life. Excellent, intellectual in tone. An antidote for much of the ill-thought out theological junk food clogging up the web. |
| Christianity Today | By far the best collection of Christian resources on the web. Except me of course, ;> |
| Theological Library | The entire theological library of McGill-Toole Catholic High School in Mobile, Alabama. There's enough here for many a wet afternoon. |
| Bible Gateway | GospelCom is not the sort of site that I'd generally feature in the Directory, being exactly what this is an alternative to. Credit where it's due, however, this is a multi version searchable online Bible, and is incredibly useful. |