Tag: Leadership
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Neophilia [5] Subvert the Fantasy Church
Links: Neophilia [1] | Neophilia [2] | Neophilia [3] | Neophilia [4] Anyone been finding blogging more difficult than it used to be? Lost the novelty a bit, and now what seemed so easy and freeing is more of a chore at times? Lots of people I’ve read seem to have done recently… Welcome to…
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Neophilia [4] | Unmask the Fantasy Self
Links: Neophilia [1] | Neophilia [2] | Neophilia [3] Over the last few posts I’ve been proposing that the Emerging Church needs to be aware of the dangers of ‘Neophilia’ – being in love with newness for newness’ sake. Neophilia is a revolutionary mode. It tries to effect quick change, but fails to settle on…
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Neophilia [3] | Christian Fantasy Cycles and Stages of Faith
In the last post I tried to argue, using Booker’s excellent book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties‘ that we must avoid sensationalism. That we must avoid the projected image, the sensational, which in the age of screens and billboards is a difficult thing to do. Booker warns that…
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Neophilia [2] | Emerging Church and the Cult of Sensation | Keep it Real
‘In this our time, the minds of men are so diverse, that some think it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of their old customs; and again, on the other side, some be so new-fangled, that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them…
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Are We Just Neophiliacs? [1]
New Year, new blog series on… Newness. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write something for some time around the book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties’ that Christopher Booker (the first editor of Private Eye) wrote back in the late 60’s. The Amazon synopsis for ‘The Neophiliacs’ is rather…
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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…