The plan is to produce one final inspires this year , and use this as an introduction to the future online facility . It is hoped that this will be published in early May . We will be contacting current subscribers to the magazine regarding all of this .
Scottish Episcopal Institute launches new Journal
The new Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal is an outreach of the Scottish Episcopal Institute . The Journal highlights the thinking of clergy and laity on living lives of holiness and service as Episcopalians in Scotland in the twenty-first century .
The Scottish Episcopal Church has a breadth and depth of theological acumen , liturgical expression , pastoral life and ministerial experience . The Journal hopes to share these riches in its new quarterly , peer-reviewed , open-access , online journal . Please see its first issue here .
The Journal – electronic and free to all – welcomes previously unpublished contributions from those who write to advance the Good News of Jesus Christ . The Scottish Episcopal Institute hopes the Journal will be a catalyst for prayer , thought and reflection at the heart of the Scottish Episcopal Church . For details on submitting an article or book review , please look here . For more information , please contact the Rev Dr Michael Hull by email dos @ scotland . anglican . org or call 0131 225 6357 .
GOD IS GREAT
This was the title of a newspaper article in a German paper for Christmas . Not that at that time of the year we would find it strange to read this in a newspaper , but instead of joy , this call somehow sends a shiver on one ’ s spine . The Islamic ‘ Allahu akbar ’, which means ‘ God is great ’, the call from the minaret and which those praying sing also , has been connected to terrorism , especially that linked to the so called ‘ Islamic State ’. This has been recently shown when a German schoolboy , meaning to do a prank , threw his rucksack into a café and called ‘ Allahu Akbar ’, whereupon those in the café panicked and called the police . So , the call for God ’ s greatness is causing panic these days .
Not so much in St Oswald ’ s , however , where Lesley-Ann let the Sunday school children sing : ’ My God is so big ’ - well , it means ‘ tall ’ but also ‘ almighty ’. Christians tell you , that at Christmas God does not only shows Himself as a little child , but also as the all-embracing , we pray to Him ‘ For all your children ’, especially those afflicted by war and disaster , but we say : ‘ God is good ’, rarely we say : ‘ God is great ’.
That hasn ’ t been the case always . During the Middle Ages crusaders called ‘ Deus lo vult ’, God wants it , when they killed unbelievers . Muslims already at that time had as a battle cry ‘ Allahu akbar ’. God wasn ’ t great , nor small , and did not work silently hidden , but clearly on the side of those with the right
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