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Keith Kimber floated into my office this morning suggesting I ought to sign up for one of these free blogs--a total waste of time as far as I am concerned. I started a personal website a few years ago (www.pie-in-the-sky.org.uk) which I have never found the time to finish or keep up to date. How in the world am I going to find time for THIS?

Let me explain, at any rate, the title. Bob Ash and I thought up this Christ "Я" Us thing about ten years ago in Birmingham as an expression of our shared commitment to radical, contemporary theology. The "Я", of course, is supposed to be backwards, as the phrase is a take-off on Toys "Я" Us. In the commercial logo I assume the "us" means the store. In "Christ Я Us" it means the body of faithful people, the covenant community, the fellowship of the holy spirit, that embodies the presence of Christ in the contemporary world. Christ is not otherwise manifest in our world outside the praxis of a community that lives the way he taught and demonstrated and so mediates his presence to the world.