Category: Emerging Church
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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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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 (1) ¦ Wild Blue Yonder ¦ Living Between Two Oceans
Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the…