Tag: 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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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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Salvaged Faith ¦ Baptized in Arial Black ¦ RS Exam Bloomers
We’ve been having school examinations the past week. I had to mark a bunch of scripts (the kids are 11/12 years old) of an RS paper on Christianity. Some of the answers were just priceless: In a series of questions on parts of a church – what is an altar, what is a pulpit……
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Full Time Christian Leadership?
On a slightly behind the scenes UK Emerging Church discussion forum, the issue of leadership/ordination/vocation has reared its ugly head. I’ve posted on this fairly extensively before (post here / Self-Organizing Leadership series here), and I’ve a fuller article coming out on the subject in Relevant Leader shortly but wanted to just re-iterate some key…
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Alpha TV Ad to go out during Big Brother…
It’s actually rather nice. Technorati: Big Brother | Alpha