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The Emerging Church is just a Marketing Phenomenon

May 19, 2010

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Church, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Theology

A very interesting post popped up on the theology site ‘An Und Fur Sich’ yesterday, which was a quick critique posted by Brad Johnson, after his investigation into the movement prompted by ‘a mixture of morbid and genuine curiosity.’ His single perspective was to read Pete Rollins’ books, and his comments spring basically out of…

Education and Insurrection

Mar 16, 2010

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Church, Education, Emerging Church, Theology

At the British Council tomorrow as part of a roundtable discussion on technology in education put together by SecEd magazine and Dell. Any thoughts on how social networks, new media or the ‘noosphere’ might impact education delivery, do drop me a note and I’ll raise them. Then straight from there to Belfast to join up…

Theological ‘Lock In’ | I Am Not A Gadget | Bad Faith [4]

Mar 14, 2010

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in Church, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Technology, Theology

[ Lock In [1] ] [ Lock In [2] ] [ Lock In [3] ] Our interaction with technologies does have an effect on our personhood. While we may not be gadgets, our tool-use is actually an important part of our personhood. It is one of the things that makes us human. The danger that Jaron…

Haiti | To Hell With Altruistic Capitalism

Jan 14, 2010

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in Church, Economics, Emerging Church, Theology

A few weeks ago I was asked to guest post something on the site for the forthcoming ‘Evolving Church’ conference in Toronto in April this year. The theme of the conference is ‘the Kingdom Economy’ and it is this that I explore a bit in the post, which you can find here. It connects to…

Hitler Youth | Rebuilding the Structure | The Problem of the Next Generation

Jan 13, 2010

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in Blog Series, Church, Emerging Church, Politics, Theology

In the previous post I tried to explore how Christian community could move away from the sociopathic tendencies it naturally develops in worship of an omnipotent God by a passive congregation directed through a ‘hero’ priest. In doing so I proposed that what we find in the radical Marxist view of Christianity is a community…

Non-Abusive Community | The Scaffold and the Structure | Zizek’s ‘Marxianity’

Jan 11, 2010

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in Blog Series, Church, Theology

How do we overcome the problem of corp-orations and organ-izations becoming sociopathic and abusive? This seems to be at the heart of the matter whether we are discussing the financial crisis (as Zizek does in First As Tragedy Then As Farce – the springboard for these posts) or the structure of our faith in a…

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