Being such a small movement (but perfectly formed!), I find it encouraging when I am given new opportunities to spread the message about Killing George Herbert (see posts passim).

Especially when the opportunity means travelling to the US to give a paper on the subject at an international conference!

In October, your 3MinuteTheologian has been invited to deliver a paper: If you meet George Herbert in the road . . . kill him! Herbertism and Contemporary Parish Ministry.

This is the conference:

GEORGE HERBERT’S
LIVING LEGACIES:
TWO CONFERENCES, 2007-2008
AN ATLANTIC WORLD INITIATIVE

Co-Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Sarum College, Salisbury, England

More details from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s website.

Dear fellow Herbicidalists!

It has been sometime since the last installment of KGH was posted on 3 Minute Theologian. This has been caused by, amongst other things, Easter, parish life, the demands of a new PhD project, preparing for the Lambeth Conference, Anglican Roots, an exciting project that is still underwraps (but was hinted at by my new best friend, Sam Norton), and vain attempts to get a life.

Having said all that, the next section of Killing George Herbert will be posted beginning on Monday, in smaller, screen-sized chunks (rather than the previous, full-on, chapter-length, 15,000 behemoths). If you want to see in which way a parish priest’s ministry should approximate to a Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix song, join me from Monday.

Those of us who write blogs find ourselves at the mercy of search machines: Google might not necessarily be the friend of the keen and enthusiastic person within the UK who today entered “ordination training” as the search term, and was directed to

KGH : Lin-Chi, the Curate and the Anglican Divine

Sorry, whoever you are. Perhaps that wasn’t the sort of information that you want now… but, one day, you will!

After the fifty days of Easter, during which an awful lot of writing, reading, preparing and teaching had to be done for life in the real world, I think that I am back, and able to contribute once more to this ongoing project.

For those of you who were patient, thank you.

Forty eight hours ago I was tagged¹. Forty eight hours ago I had no idea what “tagging” was or how it worked. So, sophisticated bloggers gather round and snigger as I get this meme thing wrong:

Rule 1) List three reasons for your blogging.
Rule 2) List these rules.
Rule 3) Tag three others with the thread.

Reasons:

1. “hello world”: no more than the ego-centric attempt to find reassurance that I actually exist as a sentient being outside and beyond the roles allotted to me by job and social status.
2. “hello brain”: it’s an external forum by which I am obliged to think and to articulate something more demanding than “three ways to be a better Christian” and “how do we increase our volunteer numbers? (hmm. note to self: two possible future blog entries)
3. “hello God”: this is what I am thinking, Lord, and this is how I am trying to make sense of your calling of me. Tom Merton had a typewriter in a cabin in the woods. I have WordPress.

So I tag Dave, who’s got far too much on for this sort of thing; Doug who deals with much more elevated ideas than this sort of thing; and Kathryn, who is probably going to have to give up this sort of thing.

(There: did I get it right?)

1. and he wants a beer as well! [↩]

Today, 27 February, is, of course, the feast day of George Herbert, priest, poet, who died this day in 1633.

King of glory, King of peace,
who called your servant George Herbert
from the pursuit of worldly honours
to be a priest in the temple of his God and King:
grant us also the grace to offer ourselves
with singleness of heart in humble obedience to your service;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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Dear comrades,

3MinuteTheology has been a pleasant sidewater, if not backwater, in the flow of the Anglican world. Until today:

If this is you, visiting from Thinking Anglicans, or Cartoon Church, welcome. And let me know what you’re thinking.

Justin

Today, a single, solitary visitor to Three Minute Theology, and probably an inadvertent one at that: they were searching for “cracked pot Yvonne Warren”, and Google threw up this post half-way down its second page of results. Whoever you are, you must be keen on finding out about the cracked pot to plough through all those results before you came to me! Thank you.

I hope that the relative silence means that we are all keeping the holy habits of Ash Wednesday.

May God bless you, and give you grace to keep a holy Lent.

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