A sermon by Bishop Graham Kings, given at St Barnabus with Christ's Chapel parish church.

An audio of the sermon is available on the parish website here: http://www.stbarnabasdulwich.org/services-stb/sermons 

An Insight from the Mission Theology in the Anglican Communion Seminar by Bishop Hilary Garang Deng 'Second Revival in Episcopal Church Among the Dinka in South Sudan: 1970 - 2010.'

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article-mt/second-revival-in-episcopal-church-among-the-dinka-in-south-sudan-1970-2010/ 

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings 

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

Voltaire.

'Nothing wins hearts like cheerfulness.'

St Dwynwen, 4th century Welsh princess and Welsh patron saint of lovers.

An Insight from the Mission Theology in the Anglican Communion Seminar "Gender and Sustainable Development in Africa:Implications for the Church" by the Revd Dr Lydia Mwaniki.

Read the full Seminar here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article-mt/gender-and-sustainable-development-in-africa/ 

An Insight from the Mission Theology in the Anglican Communion Seminar 'This is my body, this is my blood: Implications for Mission Theology from a Dalit perspective', by Elizabeth Joy.

Read the full seminar here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/this-is-my-body-this-is-my-blood-implications-for-mission-theology-from-a-dalit-perspective/ 

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

Muhammad Ali

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/muhammadal167361.html?src=t_religions

"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions."

Mahatma Gandhi

"More than any other work, The Well-Tempered Clavier allows us to understand that Bach experienced his art as a religion."

Albert Schweitzer.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/cslewis105357.html 

'Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay by small acts of kindness and love.'

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Attributed to Benjamin Franklin.

"I would believe only in a God who knows how to dance."

Friedrich Nietzsche

J.K.Rowling on the meaning of failure.

Francis Bacon on the different natures of books...

An Insight from the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi.

An Insight from the Mission Theology article by The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings: Sarah the Mother of Mission - An Exposition of Genesis 18 and the painting by Silvia Dimitrova.

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/sarah-the-mother-of-mission-an-exposition-on-genesis-18-and-the-painting-by-silvia-dimitrova/

An Insight from the Response by Steve Muneza to the Mission Theology Lecture given by the Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings.

Read the full lecture and response here:http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/sarah-the-mother-of-mission-an-exposition-on-genesis-18-and-the-painting-by-silvia-dimitrova/

An Insight from the Response by Pervaiz Sultan to the Mission Theology Lecture given by the Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings.

Read the full lecture and response here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/sarah-the-mother-of-mission-an-exposition-on-genesis-18-and-the-painting-by-silvia-dimitrova/

An Insight from the Mission Theology article by The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings: Sarah the Mother of Mission - An Exposition of Genesis 18 and the painting by Silvia Dimitrova.

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/sarah-the-mother-of-mission-an-exposition-on-genesis-18-and-the-painting-by-silvia-dimitrova/

An Insight from the Mission Theology article 'Facing the Criticism: Towards a Critical and Constructive Anglican Missiology'.

An Insight from the Mission Theology article by the Revd Dr Ruomin Liu: Is 'Postdenominational' Christianity possible?: Ecclesiology in the Protestant Church of China.

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/is-postdenominational-christianity-possible-ecclesiology-in-the-protestant-church-in-china/

An Insight following the Mission Theology Cairo Conference, from The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings, Mission Theologian.

Read the full reflection here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/interweavings/cairo-conference/

An Insight from the Mission Theology article: Theological and Cultural Foundations for Strong and Positive Inter-Religious Relations.

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/theological-and-cultural-foundations--for-strong-and-positive-inter-religious-relations/ 

An Insight from the Mission Theology article 'Diocesan Community Development as a part of God's Mission.'

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article/diocesan-community-developmentas-a-part-of-gods-mission/ 

An Insight from the Mission Theology article 'Returning to our roots: Mission in Tunisia Today and St Cyprian'.

Read the full article here: http://www.missiontheologyanglican.org/article-mt/returning-to-our-roots-mission-in-tunisia-today-and-st-cyprian/ 

'When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.'

Mahatma Ghandi

'These natives are unintelligent -

We can't understand their languages.'

Chinweizu, Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa: Griots and Towncriers (London: Faber and Faber, 1988), p. 32.

'What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.'

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest (1905-1988)

'I was joining the church not because I was abandoning Islam, but because I had learned as a Muslim to honor God, and now I wanted to love God. Islam had not repelled me; only the Gospel had attracted me.'

Lamin Sanneh, Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), p. 103.

'We neglect our bodies because we underestimate their intelligence.'

Guy Claxton, Intelligence in the Flesh: Why your mind needs your body much more than it thinks (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 2. Launched today, 16 Sept 2015, at King's College, London.

"It seems to me that Claxton rightly highlights insights in the latest western neuroscience which have been prevalant for centuries in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America." Graham Kings