Feeding the one thousand

This morning I discovered that the Unfinished Christian Twitter feed had over a thousand followers. Thank you if you are one of these. If you are not maybe you would care to join and get a prompt each time the blog is updated.
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The inescapable call

Over the past few months I have listened to scores of people about the nature of how God calls us into ministry and service. I have personally found it really unsettling experiencing God  guiding me into situations in which I am personally uncomfortable; yet  once there -channeling something of God’s purpose and love to others. [...]

Share your faith journey finished or unfinished

Bishop or bar owner, plumber or police officer, Catholic or Protestant- Christian Research want to hear from you. If you have a Christian faith, you are invited to take part in a major new project- The Faith Journeys Project- which aims to collect stories of how people came to faith. Christian Research is leading the [...]

Every grain of sand

Bob Dylan has been back in the news  with a new album and tour.  The familiar  opinions are voiced about him being what many describe as  some sort of caricature of his former self- yet Dylan has always been the classic unfinished artist. Just when you think you have locked him down, he surprises  you with a [...]

Beginning more unfinished journeys

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to lead a prayer meeting for a small group exploring baptism and confirmation. I was not at all sure that I was the right person to do this, but agreed to help out. I offered the planning for the evening up to God and asked  friends and [...]

Our heart on our sleeve

I saw a guy on the tube today sporting a tattoo down the inside of this left arm. The tattoo read, ‘I am immortal and I want you to feel the same’-bold stuff!  The trouble is that the guy looked really miserable and anything but immortal. As the advertising adage goes- ‘it didn’t do what it said [...]

Unfinished still

Lord Jesus Christ,   I am an unfinished Christian . Faith is a journey not a destination. Keep me striving for new horizons within the parameters of your truth. Forgive me that I sometimes lose sight of  the great things you have done and the wonders you have yet to reveal. Save me from thinking I [...]

Ssshh……the secret of Douglas

In Douglas Coupland’s 1994 book- Life after God, he shared his “secret” with us. I pass it to you to ponder:
“Now- here is my secret. I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you [...]

Working it out for ourselves

Last night I went to see Trevor Nunn’s exquisite revival of A Little Night Music by one of the musical theatre greats- Stephen Sondheim. As expected it was enchantingly  performed by an ensemble cast and lived up to its billing as “spinning like a seductive merry-go-round”. Based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer [...]