Category: Emerging Church
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The Homeopathic Church?
According to Wired, homeopathy works on the ‘law of infinitesimals’: the more diluted a dose gets, the more potent it becomes. A drug is diluted. Shaken. Diluted again. And again. And again. Until their is less than one molecule of the original in the dose. And this then put into a sugar pellet; makes it…
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Upcoming.org | Events Node for alt.emerging UK
Thanks to Jordan for suggesting the site upcoming.org. Basically, it’s an online events database that you can subscribe to via iCal etc, or view online. See what’s going on in your city, or somewhere you’re going. See who else is going. Invite people to stuff. Add code to your blog. It also has a groups…
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Small Is Beautiful | Cellular Simplicity
An article in this month’s Prospect carries a review by Oliver Morton of Nick Lane’s ‘magnificent’ new book Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. His thesis is an “antidote to the gene-centred view of life… Cells convert the energy they take in from the environment into a form that can be used…
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t + 5 Years | Will the Emerging Church be a Denomination?
In discussion about a forthcoming UK project with Jonny and some others from various networks on Friday, the question was asked “where do we want to be [with this project] in 5 years?” In the ensuing debate the question was then raised: “in what way is what we are doing not the establishment of a…
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alt.emerging. UK National Gathering
Exciting event coming up 24th – 26th Feb 06. For fuller details read Jonny’s post here. Highly recommended. For current practitioners. Limited to 100 places. Email nationalgathering@xalt.co.uk for further details.
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Advent: Dirt and Creation
As we think about the coming season of Advent, I’ve been mulling about the process by which ‘newness’ comes about. I was talking with two Vaux accomplices on Sunday, who are both doing post-graduate studies variously around ideas of space. Both were commenting on the varied backgrounds of the people they were studying with, and…