Author: KB
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Arbuckle: Refounding | Common Roots of All Religions | Why Do We Always Screw It Up?
Thanks to Mark for a great post around Gerald Arbuckles “From Chaos to Mission – Refounding Religious Life Formation“. He includes this diagram, which prodded me to think not only about how renewal occurs within religion, but more generally about how religions are founded. Mark notes: “Arbuckle talks about three stages; 1) Initial unease, the…
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Reflections on Going to Church in Second Life | It’s All About Sex
OK, so I went to church. In Second Life. A little late – so that’s pretty much par for regular church – but I wandered around and tried to take the thing in. I didn’t last long. I got forcibly evicted – teleported I guess – for having no clothes on. I tried to give…
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Come to Church With Me Tomorrow!
In Second Life, that is. LifeChurch.tv A few of us are going to check it out. I’ll be KFrank Repine, and Zack’ll be there as Depak Soderstrom. I guess we’ll start true to type and hang around the back first 😉 Service kicks off 5:30pm UK, and that’s 9:30am PDT. See you then. I don’t…
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Gravity and Grace (3) | DIY Heaven
Or… as I finished the previous post, perhaps we shouldn’t try to escape the gravity of this large mass. Herzog’s film is a satirical critique of the ‘don’t worry about the environment, we’ll all eject to some other system’ view. We can’t. And if we did, it’d be tragic. The earth is what we have.…
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Urgent Help Needed – Fire at The Simple Way Community
Many of you will know Shane Claiborne, and maybe will have read his book The Irresistible Revolution, or read about The Simple Way community in Philadelphia. A fire has totally destroyed their buildings. 8 families are homeless. Please read on and consider supporting these wonderful people in this great time of need:
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Gravity and Grace (2) | Leaving the orbit of a large Mass
In the last post, about Herzog’s new(ish) film The Wild Blue Yonder, I mentioned that much of the footage was shot on a Space Shuttle mission. From the haircuts it looks early ’90s. May be even earlier. That or NASA have some serious fashion issues hanging over. Going into space has always been a huge…