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Has What Emerged Retreated? | Returning to the Institutions

Jun 21, 2010

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I’ve been thinking over the previous post, and over the conversation I had with Barry Taylor on Saturday about the state of things, and a thought keeps returning to me: there seems to have been a retreat to the institutions recently. I want to be very careful here, partly because a) I have many friends…

Rude Britannia | Dirt | Nothing Going on in the UK Church?

Jun 20, 2010

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KB

in Arts, Church, Emerging Church, Theology

Had a fine morning yesterday with Barry Taylor at the Tate Britain. We went round the very wonderful Rude Britannia exhibition, which is a lot deeper and richer than saucy postcards, though there are plenty like this one above to tickle your fancy. Different rooms of exhibition have been co-curated by the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Bell…

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…

Category: Church

Has What Emerged Retreated? | Returning to the Institutions

Rude Britannia | Dirt | Nothing Going on in the UK Church?

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

Haiti | To Hell With Altruistic Capitalism

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