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The left column below shows the main themes as they have developed.  The newest pages in this theme are added to the bottom, although the very latest are also listed to the right of the headings. The right column shows themes we have touched and left.  If you are a new reader, Mudmap Theology 1 and then 2 in particular, set the scene for the  rest of the articles.

Introduction
Defining the Mud Map
The Absence of God 


Current
The New Church - Moving on

Previous Topics
Women
Living in Partnership
Male Friendship
Complicity and Sin 
Conversations
Latest Posts...

The Scary thing about Bishop Spong Sept 30 2007
Me Letting go of I...
 focussed in the wrong place July 11 2006
One sheep's bleat  August 1 2006
Slow Train Coming - Environment, Ethics and Faith Apri1 - Dec 2006
This Present Bubble - Faith and ethics in the present Nov 2006
The More - a gift November 2006
Faith Hope and Love - another insight December 2006
Let go!  Ecstasy 31 December 2006
Floundering in Paradise Blesséd non-events Jan 2007
Faith Hope and Love
- Updated Jan 2007
Violence
Feb 17 2007
The Big List 
Another Mud Map begins... March 23 2007
Don't Paint the Station Green 
Live Green and Fair April 2007
A MythoLogical life  We need to get the mix right May 15 2007
reTrain the heart  Being Green and Fair May 16 2007

Defining the Mudmap
Mud map theology 1
A masculine theology for today   
Mudmap Theology for Men  2
Mudmap 3   What are the surroundings?
Mud map Theology 4 
On the journey is where we find meaning 
Women
Women! 5   Mudmap Theology 5 April 1999
Women! 5-1 
What have we learned? May 1999
Women! 5-2
Biblical relationships May 1999
The Absence of God
Mapping Absent Presence  October 21 2001
UnWorthy Worship
October 21 2001
Finding Presence
October 21 2001 
Tentative Lines
October 21 2001

The New Church
A New Worship
(Letter to a friend after morning coffee) August 2002
Why did I stay?
Manipulation and Paradigms September 2002
Prayer
(1) A future for corporate prayer? October 2002
Saying My Prayers
Prayer (2) October 2002
Why I Pray
Prayer (3) Rev Judith E Meyer Nov 2000
Fact and Theorem, Hypothesis and Hype:
Being critical about religious experience Nov 2002
Towards Worship
 
Towards Worship (1) Worship in the light of Spong  Dec 2002
Interpreting Virgins
Virgins, anger and prickly motivation. Towards Worship (2) Christmas 2002
Virginal Worship?
Towards Worship (3) What is medium and what is message? Jan 2003
Utter Pointlessness
Living with pointlessness and the loss of meaning Jan 2003
The Fertility of Story Exploring the power of our own story
Jan 2003
Thinking out loud about Jesus...
a response to Spong Feb 2003
No Virgins Please, we're Christians
Jan 2003 
Worship the Mystery
The Divine after God is gone 5-10-2003
Jesus the Mystery  
Is there any place for Jesus 10/10/2003
A Question of Courage
What constitutes good Christianity 2-11-2003
Rational Hope 
Much of Christian faith is deeply irrational 6-12-2003 
Rational Faith How we must develop our theology 20-12-2003
Translation... re-wording the faith "Why do what God wants?"  Jan 11 2004
Panentheism...
In the womb of God... Feb 22 2004 
The Right Thing...
Unexpected pregnancy July 19 2004
The Powers... What the Faith brings to us  September 12 2004
Tsunamis and God... Living in a world with the new God Jan 2005
The Pagan Christs (1) April 2005  Do they matter?
Abundant Life: A Sermon while reading the Pagan Christ April 2005
A thought experiment May 2005
 The Christian story is a problem for we 21st century people
Light and dark stories June 2005
Remembering God  September 2005
Holydays Arrive (1) October 2005
Holydays: The Forest (2) October 2005
Holydays: Musing (3) October 2005
Holydays: Coming Home (4) October 2005
After the holidays November 2005
Paradigms... Back on the road, again Jan 8 2006
Hysteria... a threat to our safety 26 Jan 2006
Me Letting go of I...  focussed in the wrong place July 11 2006
One sheep's bleat  August 1 2006
Slow Train Coming - Environment, Ethics and Faith Apri1 - Dec 2006
This Present Bubble - Faith and ethics in the present Nov 2006
The More -
a gift November 2006
Faith Hope and Love - another insight December 2006
Let go!  Ecstacy 31 December 2006
Floundering in Paradise Blesséd non-events Jan 2007
Violence Feb 17 200
The Big List 
Another Mud Map begins... March 23 2007
Don't Paint the Station Green  Live Green and Fair April 2007
A MythoLogical life  We need to get the mix right May 15 2007
The Scary thing about Bishop Spong Sept 30 2007

 
Women: Living in Partnership
Disclaimer June 25 2001
Pain 
June 25 2001
Hard Partnering 
June 25 2001
No Easy Answers 
June 25 2001
Hard Answer but True 
June 25 2001
Finding Feeling 
July 1 2001
Listening 
July 1 2001
But How do I Feel?
July 1 2001
Is It Worth It? 
July 1 2001
Empathy 
July 12 2001
Fear of Feeling
July 12 2001
Resentment
July 12 2001
Men Feel Too
Sept 28 2001

Male Friendship
Life and Male Friendship  Mudmap 6 September 1999
Life and Male Friendship 2  
Mudmap 6 October 1999
  

Complicity and Sin
Complicity and Sin  November 11 2001
Complicity 
November 11 2001
Sin (1)
December 15 2001

Conversations

Conversation with a Convert (1) 

And When I Die? (2)
Allen's Faith 
(3)

What Do You Believe? (4)

I Believe   (5) February 2001

Where Now?  (6) July 2001
God
(7)

God (8)

God (9)

Alienation (10) July 15 2001

After Spong! (11) July 22

Exile (12) July 26 2001

The People in Between  (13) July 26 2001

Divine vs. God (14) July 26 2001

 What can we say about God? Sept 28 2001

 A Greater Reality  April 13 2002

 Reviving Resurrection May 25 2002 Is bodily resurrection a key doctrine or has it become an error.  A brief conversation

 

 




 




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