Tag: Complexity
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Emergent, emerging, emergent? | Is Signs ‘Just Another Emerging Church Book’?
No this isn’t a lesson in Latin conjugation… but language and its evolving meanings are important. With the release of the book, people have been wondering if this is just ‘another emerging church book’. I’d like to answer that with an emphatic no! Part of the reason for that is, I feel less and less…
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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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Finally Teleportation is Possible ¦ So That’s How Philip Did it
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I’ve always gawped in wonder at the bit in Acts 8 where "the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus". The only teleportation reference in the Bible? Anyway, seems like they’ve finally worked out how…
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Before you can love thy neighbour, you’ve got to meet them first… | Social Networking
Which is where Peuplade comes in. (You can read the BBC’s article on it here.) It’s a Parisian social networking site that is helping people to meet their neighbours. Which is great. Sort of. Of course it’s a positive thing that people are meeting up. But it worries me that it has taken the mediation…
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In Conclusion: Love thy Neighbour
So here’s the first proper post of the Signs blog. The book itself comes out in July, but why wait that long – I’m hoping we’ll be able to engage in some discussion way before then. (If you really can’t, you can order a copy of the UK version or download a sample chapter 😉…
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Off to Soliton | Nomadic Faith | Spiritual Cartography | Vx ‘Suicide’
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Off tomorrow to Ventura, CA, for the Solition Sessions. Big thanks to the generous guys there for offering to fly me over. What with being off there and other recent trips, it’s felt like a bit of a busy, travelling summer. But it was great to catch up properly with Nic the other night. One…