Wood Green Mennonite Church in North London is looking for someone to work with the church for 4 days a week between August and November 2010. Their primary task will be to introduce the church to students.

Further details can be downloaded below.

Lloyd Pietersen's new book - the sixth in the 'After Christendom' series - Reading the Bible after Christendom will be published in 2010. Lloyd is delighted that well-respected Old Testament scholar, Walter Brueggemann, has written a foreword, commending this book very warmly. Here is an extract from the foreword:

Shalom is the Bible’s word for peace. Shalom is the hope of the prophets: enemies reconciled, injustices righted, hurts healed, fears calmed and communities prospering. God’s mission is to bring the whole of creation into harmony; peace with God, peace between the nations, peace with the created order. Followers of Jesus are invited to work with God in this peace-making mission to be ‘shalom activists’.

For those who are not persuaded that 'Back to Church Sunday' has much of a future in post-Christendom, here's a different strategy I've just come across.

See www.dontgotochurchsunday.org

The Manchester Anabaptist Group plans to meet monthly, mostly on the third Monday of the month. These are the dates for the coming year. We meet at the Friends Meeting House, 91 Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, at 7.30pm.

21 September
19 October
16 November
14 December

2010
18 January
15 February
15 March
19 April
17 May
21 June
19 July

A DVD presentation by Alan Kreider

The early church was growing rapidly. For three hundred years, despite discrimination and persecution, people took the risky step of being baptized and entering into the life of an exciting but despised religious minority. What was it that attracted people to become Christians? How did the Christians share their message with others? How did worship make Christianity attractive? Did the emergence of emperor Constantine I in the early fourth century change things?