Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Progressive, emergent on 2 August 2007 - 19 אב 5767
This based on the text of an email sent to a mailing list I was once a member of. It had been shared with the list by the original recipient. It later came up in a sermon and spoke to me very clearly, through my memory of the event, down through the last 5 [...]
Posted in church geekery, emergent, orthoparadoxy, praxis conversation on 25 July 2007 - 11 אב 5767
I ended part one of this Rumination asking, “Is it useful for communities who consider themselves to be moving beyond older models to continue this model (of Ordained ministry and Apostolic Succession) or, if the goal is to move back to some older model (ie, the “Early Church”) how is that done?”
Over on [...]
Posted in Progressive, emergent, teh internets on 22 July 2007 - 8 אב 5767
St. Gregory of Nyssa Church has a beautiful new website. Done (in Expression Engine) by a friend of mine… They’ve also got a podcast (link for iTunes only).
Posted in emergent, praxis conversation on 18 July 2007 - 4 אב 5767
I’m expecting 2 parts maybe more… an exploration of Eucharist and Ordination.
I visited the Circle of Mercy on Sunday. I went for two reasons: (1) I’ve never been to a UCC parish before and having read good things about them, I wanted to visit; (2) their worship sounded a LOT lit my time at [...]
In the “mote in your eye/plank in mine” department, the Holy Office of the Inquisition has reaffirmed the idea that only the Roman Church is, you know, Church. The rest of us are wounded, deficient and not really worthy of the name “church” at all.
I feel so happy I could just plotz.
Mind you, the [...]
I am stealing this meme and unleashing it within my personal blogosphere for pure mischief.
Those tagged must list five things they dig about Jesus and then tag some five more folks.Jesus really does love the marginalised. He also loves the non-marginalised. He loves beyond those simple, worldly rules - even when a given [...]
Posted in Progressive, emergent, saints and days on 8 July 2007 - 23 תמוז 5767
Generous Orthodoxy points us to a new Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet, including this great quote:
…[W]e are not Christians because we profess Thy name and celebrate the ceremonies and idly reiterate the prayers of the church, but only in so far as we really comprehend and follow the Christ spirit…
Posted in emergent, orthoparadoxy on 7 July 2007 - 22 תמוז 5767
On the Emergent Podcast, Scot Mc Knight talks about how the Incomplete Gospel taught by many evangelicals leads to the deconstruction of the church and the rampant individualism evident in many American Christians. He hit on many themes I recognised: Jesus is not a fire escape. Humans are icons of God… It [...]
Posted in emergent, other geekery on 4 July 2007 - 19 תמוז 5767
Comparing Emerging Church ideas with Programming Language:
The Modernist believes in OR more than AND. Postmodernists believe in AND more than OR…. We can use Perl as an example. In Perl, AND has higher precedence than OR does. There you have it. That proves Perl is a postmodern language.
Posted in emergent, orthoparadoxy on 4 July 2007 - 19 תמוז 5767
Tony Jones has posted a paper (downloadable as a PDF) and long and well-thought out post on the Fathers and Councils and their Authority for us today.
Tony writes from an emergent and post-modern context.
I argued that we’re in conversation with the Fathers today, just as they were in conversation with one another in their day. [...]
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