Edinburgh 2010 kicks off

Today marks the beginning of a historic conference which gathers together possibly the most representative gathering of the world church in history - on the centenary of the World Mission Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.

Over the next four days, the 250 delegates will be talking, thinking and praying around 9 themes related to the mission of the global church.

An unexpected quirk met the delegates as they arrived - a protest from some Christian group anxious to avoid ‘unity at the expense of truth.’ I didn’t know such groups still existed, but I did feel a bit sorry for the folk stuck in what looked like a fairly dismal theology - or is it really a psychology? Perhaps ‘unity’ and ‘truth’ need not be polarised as ‘either/or’ options. Who said Christians had to agree with one another before they could live together?

Duncan