#HolyAnarchy

Great to connect. I'm also keen on anti-imperial things #holyanarchy

Me and some Holy Anarchy books

Elephant & Castle underground station

Me & the CWM logo

Some London buildings

Gave a #HolyAnarchy talk in London office of Council for World Mission - a partnership of churches in mission, which has helped me to be decolonial over recent years, & which is cited through the book. It was a good event.

The Pleasures of Holy Anarchy: Appreciating the Theology of Graham Adams Redefining Power Graham Adams, a contemporary theologian in the open and relational tradition, reimagines divine power as amipotence , rejecting coercion and domination in favor of relationality,...

A really encouraging & creative engagement with my ideas in an essay in 'Amipotence' (volume 2) & in #HolyAnarchy &, at the end, in #GodtheChild - including some further creative metaphors -
www.openhorizons.org/the-pleasure...

And another exciting banner, with Jo Cribbin's response to #HolyAnarchy

Promotion of book Holy Anarchy, with quote by Anthony Reddie: I've been waiting 30 years for this book!

SCM have made some new exciting banners to advertise #HolyAnarchy. Thanks @scmpress.bsky.social

Thank you for these kind words reviewing #HolyAnarchy- much appreciated!

Yes, just got a copy - great to see your endorsement - it feels like it would be good to connect sometime (not just because of resonances with my #HolyAnarchy & this book, or because our Unitarian students are among our best at LKC 😉) but just because!

So, an exciting new SCM book, The Messianic Commons, with lots of the endorsements referencing 'sacred anarchy' or 'the anarchic breeze', & the disruption of rule-over ... so it sounds well worth bringing it into engagement with #HolyAnarchy - like there's something in the air @scmpress.bsky.social

Thinking of reshaping #HolyAnarchy as a Lent resource, possibly with short videos, around 5 themes -
1. Kingdom as Holy Anarchy & the two kinds of truth
2. Holy Anarchy v. Empire
3. Holy Anarchy & the awkward body of Christ
4. Holy Anarchy & strangeness
5. Worshipping the anarchic God
Any thoughts?

Absolutely! The between-ness is where anarchic things happen, of the best & holiest kind 😉 - disrupting dominating power dynamics. And such 'chaos,' as Catherine Keller puts it, 'is the border along which creativity happens'. #HolyAnarchy!

Image of Holy Anarchy book

Image of God the Child book

Image of Bible and Theology from the underside of Empire book - I've 2 chapters in it

Image of Scripture and Resistance book - I've a chapter in it

Book info, in addition to links in profile - #HolyAnarchy: a new approach to kingdom of God, challenging empire & domination (inc in the church), & #GodtheChild: the childlike nature of this anarchic God & their kingdom, in smallness, weakness & curiosity. Book reviews below:

To the tune 'Easter hymn' & published in #HolyAnarchy (p.208) (please reference it if you use it), a hymn reflecting on resurrection as an unrecognisable & destabilising reality, which revolutionises the landscape & our perception - because Empire is subverted!

Led worship elsewhere today - lovely people & great engagement on the theme of 'becoming like children'. First time for me for someone leading at another church to turn up afterwards to ask me to sign their copy of my book! #HolyAnarchy!