anyone going to this?
Dangerous Stories 2 I’ve just registered, although a little ambivalently – i felt like a fish out of water at DS1, and Gotan Project are playing on the friday night at Womad in Adelaide…
emergent
i’m reading The Complex Christ again… i decided when i first read the book, 12 months ago, that i’d read it when i’d been in the job a while and had some more reference points.
this quote fills me with hope (and challenge)…
“My problem with many of these ‘Emerging Church’ projects is that they are still attempting to bring church up to date by ‘trainspotting’ some aspect of culture and making church fit it. I want to argue that in the ‘Emergent Church’ the emphasis will be on being the train, rather than trainspotting: rather than trying to import culture into church and make it ‘cool’, we instead need to become ‘wombs of the divine’ and completely rebirth the Church into a host culture.” – p.71
wombs of the divine…
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which alternatives?
a few of us had dinner with Jenny McIntosh and Jane Braun last night, both visiting from NZ. it was such a good conversation – a relief to hear an echo of the story of this project through the stories Jenny and Jane were telling, and to be able to imagine and dream in their…
Spirited Exchanges
a reminder that Jenny McIntosh, from Spirited Exchanges, is in town on Thursday 1st June. You’re invited to a conversation over dinner and drinks that night, about forming communities for people who have left the church, but not the faith. From 6.30, in the lounge at Alphabet City, 98 High Street, Northcote. Please let me…
change…
another excerpt (very, very draft) from my report, building on the comments from craig and roddy below. this bit is about change. i realise the uniting church is a unique beast, and that perhaps the issues we have with change are, also, unique. but tell me if you think i’m being too harsh… (the writing’s…
Brian McLaren in Melbourne
I was reminded by a comment from Darren that I’ve been meaning to put up the Melbourne dates for Brian McLaren’s visit. Mark Pierson from UrbanSeed, just down the road, is bringing Brian out for a speaking tour in Australia and New Zealand. Brian is an author, thinker and pastor who has become one of…