tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post460890917080504404..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Doing God in Dresden...Bishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-48872756481742142662011-06-03T16:23:59.723+01:002011-06-03T16:23:59.723+01:00I'm really sorry not to have been at Kirchenta...I'm really sorry not to have been at Kirchentag since my one and only last visit. I keep meaning to go, but it usually runs up against Ascension or Whitsun and the canons suggest i ought not to desert the parish for such. <br /><br />Good to read your post.Tonus Peregrinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141240533333455341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-69931814283543380352011-06-03T16:18:19.396+01:002011-06-03T16:18:19.396+01:00Many thanks for this. I was just talking to a coll...Many thanks for this. I was just talking to a colleague this morning about the difficulty of imagining the Kirchentag happening on the streets of Manchester or Birmingham. How have we got ourselves, as a society, to the point where such creative, intelligent and public engagement with Christian faith seems improbable? I wonder if we in the church have to bear some of the responsibility for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-6374098944987854002011-06-03T15:29:30.380+01:002011-06-03T15:29:30.380+01:00This is a smart and perceptive post, Alan. The pol...This is a smart and perceptive post, Alan. The polarisation around public faith-commitment in the UK is increasingly heated and lightless - "we're all being persecuted" vs. "We're a secular state so Christians like us should just shut up". Hopefully we can learn that lesson too (among others perhaps) from Dresden.PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07423242622643327141noreply@blogger.com