emergent
kiwi
In Liquid Church, Pete Ward takes a deep swim in postmodern waters. While many are just trying to dog paddle, Ward explores ways for the church to incarnationally flourish in our contemporary culture. At times the theologian in me wonders if Ward’s theology is so liquid he ignores Divine person, and thus the importance of gathering. At times the practitioner in me wonders who will fund Pete’s dreams. But the insights around spiritual desire and the creative and missional possibilities around shopping for meaning are worth the price alone. It is a provocative book in which the missionary heartbeat is undeniable. The book is well written. It is concise. It handles well. If you’re serious about being church in the postmodern world, it is worth taking the plunge.
liquid church
Coming:
Olive Drane, creativity and the image of God
Christchurch, January 04
Going:
Taylor's to Chch, Jan04
Church and Society, Auckland, Feb04
Stuff I've written:
Celebrating a Postmodern Pentecost
Sketching a postmodern missiology
Romeo/Juliet/altworship
DJing salvation
Piglet reads the Bible in a postmodern world
Coupland/community
cultural
wildflowers
1 Peter:mysogynist
or feminist
New generation/new
millenium
Church
in a global world
My further reading
art and spirituality
church ministry
postmodernity
Generation X
popular culture
gospel and culture
faith in aotearoa new zealand
Conversations that enhance me:
andrew jones up close
small ritual
douglas rushkoff
jonny baker
God-n-
club culture
paul fromont
darren rowse
Christian greenie
God-n-club culture-2
human in london
intellectually gritty
rachel cunliffe
jordon cooper (mentioned my blog 3x)
mark barkaway
Interview with:
Archives:
June 2002
July 2002
August 2002
September 2002
October 2002
November 2002
December 2002
January 2003
February 2003
March 2003
April 2003
May 2003
June 2003
July 2003
August 2003
September 2003
October 2003
November 2003
December 2003
January 2004
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Question
I have spent the week chasing, seeking, begging, explaining, for copyright permission to use various art images in my PhD thesis.
Why do I have to get permission to use images, but I can use words (quotes from books) for free? Why are images more privileged than words?
posted by spirit2go team at 10:38 PM
Protests mark World Vegetarian Day
Herds of cows and flocks of sheep marched hoof to hoof up Queen Street today, protesting their continued exploitation by meat eaters world wide. Religious fanatics chanted "Return to Eden" and "Genesis 9:2", an obscure reference to the fact that the Garden of Eden was a vegetarian paradise. Ronald McDonald was on hand, offering free burgers to back sliders. Several managed to break through the picket lines. Meanwhile, on a more gracious note, clergy, clad in hemp ropes, quietly heard confessions from weeping penitents, with the consumption of bacon pieces a common theme.
Today, 1 October, is World Vegetarian Day.
PS This is a joke.
posted by spirit2go team at 6:59 PM
Wet dream!
I had the oddest dream last night. I dreamt that I had just traveled to NZ to check out an alternative form of worship led by Steve Taylor. I got to the worship space, which was out doors, in the rain! We all were huddled together wearing yellow slickers and painting (in the rain mind you!). Steve said something like "imagine in your mind's eye what it's like to be this way and create that image". What "it" was/is I have no idea. All I know is that when I woke, the experience had been quite moving.
I have come to accept that God speaks prophetically any number of ways. And dreams are certainly one way that this can happen. Is this dream prophetic? And if so, to what degree? And why Steve? I don't know. I do think that it's another go ahead from God to explore alt worship (which I know little about...and the church in Canon City knows even less).
via richard.
posted by spirit2go team at 2:10 PM
Be earthed o Incarnate one
We only attain a sense of the “whole” through our participation in what is “particular” to our own specific situations and places of belonging … a journey of intensification into the concreteness of each particular reality – this body, this people, this community, this tradition, this tree, this place, this moment, this neighbour – until the very concreteness in any particularity releases us to sense the concreteness of the whole as an internally related reality through and through. Quote from Terry Veling, Living the Margins (a wonderful exploration of Catholic alt.communities)
posted by spirit2go team at 3:10 AM
Monday, September 29, 2003
Luminarium
This would make totally cool alt.worship. An inflatable series of tunnels, with light and mirrors and places to sit, and meditate.
Imagine the projected lights swirling through it. Imagine walking it in the lashing rain, in the soft summer shadows, at night.
posted by spirit2go team at 12:58 PM
Transformed
I spent the day with Paul, Alice and Sophie. We went to visit Kelly Tarltons, an underwater world. It used to be Sewage tunnels and now its glass tubes and sharks and sting rays swim overhead. It's a nice metaphor for church and Kingdom and vision; seeing the sh** in the city transformed.
posted by spirit2go team at 12:48 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2003
I am very sensual
Or at least my writing is, according to cjaldrich[you have to page down a bit to find the sensual ref.]
posted by spirit2go team at 4:35 AM
Take
take
broken pottery
feel
broken edges
hear
REM
Everybody hurts
place
embed
in soft earth
dark loam
mound
cross shaped
posted by spirit2go team at 3:41 AM
Saturday, September 27, 2003
Different places
Many blogs I read share a common thread with me; that of being Christian and following Jesus in a postmodern world. And so we share a common context; a postmodern world of image and irony, fragmentation and wholistic spirituality.
While we share commonality, we also share differences. We all write from different places. Blogs from US are quite different to blogs from NZ. And so they should. Different issues. Different context.
One of the features of postmodernity I have been reflecting on recently is this relationship between local and global. A common global culture is actually appropriated and expressed locally. Many niches, many voices. Welcome to the shared world of postmodern pluralism. Media allows us to speak differently.
I need a greater respect for these divergent local readings and expressions of the postmodern condition.
posted by spirit2go team at 8:30 PM
Thursday, September 25, 2003
CS Lewis in multi-media
One of the things important to Graceway is participation. In relation to "preaching" and worship, we send out early in the week via email the text/theme/image/topic that might be shaping our weekly gathering. It means people "can" chew things over, bounce things off each other, argue, agree .... but be participating before we gather. Some weeks it's dead silence, other weeks it's all go. It's been all go this week, and someone took the time to write me and say;
Just wanted to quickly say: thanks for the communal texts ... The cool thing abt graceway is how it gets our brains fully engaged on God. Kinda like a CS Lewis book, but you cater for my modern multimedia brain too... Thank you!!
posted by spirit2go team at 10:43 PM
Young leaders
Mark is leaving for the Philipines today. He is spending some time with Servants to Asia's Urban Poor. Servants are very cool. They are teams living and working in the slums of Asia's mega cities.
Mark is also very cool. He and Bridget have intentionally moved into a New Zealand poor community. They are young leaders who are going to be hugely influential in God's future. Mark shared at our Pentecost Enliven and was very good. They are seeking in community and simplicity to be Jesus among the poor. It is hard for them. But they have such conviction and quiet confidence. And they are such fun to be around. I love and admire them both.
Someone said to me yesterday that Servants is a postmodern mission organisation. That’s a big call.
Servants value Incarnation - living with the poor;
Simplicity - setting aside affluence and comfort;
Community - working with people not just for them;
Servanthood - empowering not overpowering;
Wholism - preaching grace and promoting justice.
Does that make Servants postmodern? Or has the label postmodern been applied too quickly? I don’t know.
PS I have tried to get Mark to blog, but have not yet been successful. It's a shame because he has some great stories. Mr Cat, Mr Cat is legendary.
posted by spirit2go team at 3:17 PM
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Loyal in community
- 1984 and Dave Dobyn, singer of Loyal, is charged with inciting a riot. Loyal to whom and to what?
- 2000 and Loyal is theme song for a successful New Zealand Cup Defence. But loyal to who and loyal to what?
- 2003 and Loyal is again a theme song for an unsuccessful New Zealand Cup Defence. Loyal for nothing?
What does it mean to be loyal in New Zealand?
Sunday, 6:16 pm, Graceway. Part of series that explores top New Zealand music in relation to Christianity.
posted by spirit2go team at 4:24 PM
Can Christians be too Biblical?
Every now and again,
when the preacher opens the Bible I want to shout,
Stop! Stop using the Bible and look at Jesus.
Now before you dismiss me as a liberal,
or worse, a heretic, let me explain.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites us to look at creation (the birds, the flowers). In looking at creation, says Jesus, we find God.
In Luke 13, Jesus answers a question by referring to current events,
to the disaster news of a tower falling and killing 18 people.
(Obviously not an OHS approved work place.) Jesus uses current events to make a point.
In the Parables, time and again Jesus takes life events;
weddings, meals, investments,
and uses them to announce the Kingdom. Jesus uses life to make the point
In Acts 17, Paul uses poetry to communicate the Christian message.
Paul uses contemporary culture to make a point.
Jesus and Paul were never so Biblical that they became no earthly use.
To use the Bible all the time is,
ironically, not Biblical.
Not fully following in the way of Jesus.
So I do get tired of “our text for today is the Bible passage”.
That’s why every now and and again, when the preacher opens the Bible I do want to shout, Stop, look at Jesus.
Here’s my challenge. Can we, like Jesus and Paul, use non-Biblical texts and passages? Could we start our sermons with creation or current events or contemporary culture?
This would have some immediate advantages
Accessibility – our message would instantly be connective to everyone. It could remove elitism from inside the church.
A second advantage would be integration - Christianity would become much more part of our everyday world.
So imagine hearing a Sunday sermon on a contemporary song. Imagine then going to the local mall. Pipped over the loudspeakers is that same song. Hey presto, your Monday has just been connected to your Sunday. That’s integration.
A third advantage would be freshness. Lots of new windows, lots of new views, with which to see God.
The disadvantage is the potential to dilute. The Biblical message might get lost in the culture and we go whoosing down the slippery slope of cultural relativism.
However, it does seem a risk that Jesus and Paul were prepared to take.
So I have set myself a new preaching goal. To open the texts of New Zealand music.
You see, I’m a big fan of New Zealand music.
I’ve always wanted to be a rock star. In my youth, I used to imagine being the lead singer. I used to practise my stardom in front of the mirror with U2 playing LOUD.
At 35, those dreams are rapidly fading. To tell you the truth, I can’t sing or play to save myself.
However, I still remain a dedicated music fan.
One of the recent musical highlights for me as been the Nature’s Best musical compilations. In celebration of 75 years of New Zealand music, APRA, Australasian Performing Rights Association, has been re-releasing New Zealand’s 60 best songs.
Hmmm. Now if Jesus or Paul could use creation, or current events or contemporary culture to communicate, could I?
Could I use New Zealand’s best music as a sermon text?
How might Dave Dobbyn’s Loyal help me find God? Could Crowded House’s Don’t dream its over be a window onto hope? And what is the Christian perspective on Nature by Fourmulya? - voted New Zealand’s no 1 song.
That’s my challenge over the next weeks at Graceway. To use NZ music as a sermon text. I start with Dobbyn's "loyal" this Sunday.
I want to be Biblical. Be like Jesus. Use less of the Bible and more of creation and culture.
posted by spirit2go team at 4:12 PM
HELP - NZ music fans
I am after any video or images of the aftermath of the Auckland Queen Street Riots in 1984. I wonder if they might be on the TV programme, Give it a Whirl, Episode 4 (Anarchy in the air) or 5 (Finding our own voice).
Can any NZ music fans out there help me?
posted by spirit2go team at 2:53 PM
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Who is the Good Samaritan in cyberspace?
Question in an email from Stephen.
posted by spirit2go team at 2:36 AM
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Blossoming cross
The visual focus of our Soulstice worship last nite was soil, with a cross made from live kowhai (New Zealand native) flowers etched in the middle.
As part of the response, people confessed by naming, writing in the dirt, environmental sins they were part of. Vivaldi's Four Seasons played (we really struggled to find contemporary "spring soulstice music) and projected images of spring slid across the screen.
In another part of the room a dead branch hung. People made blossoms out of crepe paper and taped it on the dead branch, their prayers that the spring time Jesus would be at work in their lives and in our world. Slowly the dead and drad became the colourful.
Very participatory, ambient and quite powerful. Our kids spent hours after the service making more and more paper blossoms, both for the tree and to give to people in the church.
posted by spirit2go team at 4:53 PM
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Watching movies
Did you ever see the movie “You’ve got mail” starring Meg Ryan?
I have friends who just loved it.
They came bursting into church raving about this movie with no sex, no violence and no bad language. A great movie for Christians to go to, they announced.
Fill your minds and meditate on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious, as it says in Philipians chapter 4.
The irony is that the central plot of “You’ve got mail” is Meg Ryan leaving one relationship for another. Meg is in one committed relationship. Via the internet she falls in love with someone else. So this so-called “great movie for Christians” was about dishonesty and disloyalty in human relationships.
So yes, no sex, no violence, no bad language.
But yes, no integrity, no commitment.
“A great movie for Christians to go to,” I asked in disbelief? “Is this what it means to meditate on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling and gracious?”
There must be more to watching the movies.
A lot of research has gone into the way us individuals watch the movies. One example is a French Catholic priest, Michel de Certeau, who was employed by the French government, paid to research, on how us ordinary, everyday people, engage with telly and film and news.
He researched how people walked, shopped, looked at advertising, or used VCR’s. He argued for 2 categories; strategies and tactics.
Strategies are what the institutions tell us. Tactics are what people do in response. Tactics are where us ordinary, everyday people get creative.
Tactics are where we turn off the sound during ad breaks. Tactics are when we laugh in disbelief at ads. Yeah right, we go. Tactics are when we talk about the news over the smoko table or movies like “You’ve got mail” with our friends.
Strategy and tactics allow me to watch the media with intelligence. Watching movies is now no longer a simple case of garbage in, garbage out.
Instead, it’s like going to the dump looking for treasure. Asking questions;
Does this give me insight into human behaviour?
What elements of grace, or truth, or justice can I find?
What are my tactics in response to this institutional message?
Picking over the garbage. Knowing you will find a few treasures; some wood to fix that hole in the kids play house, a computer monitor that really does work.
The strategy of the institution might be to dump rubbish. The tactics of ordinary people are to go looking for treasure.
posted by spirit2go team at 2:27 AM
Postmodern Pentecost
Article I wrote for Reality magazine is now online here.
"In a postmodern world words and images and a new awareness of nature itself enliven the spiritual journey for those who know Christ and those who have yet to engage with God."
posted by spirit2go team at 2:22 AM
How rich are we?
This week our pub community group were discussing our financial pressures. I arrived late, tired and proceeded to sort of kill the conversation by announcing it must be tough to be in the top 7% of the world's income (Sorry to the pub group for being such a jerk!)
check it out
posted by spirit2go team at 2:06 AM
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Godly play
Godly play is a wholistic and spiritual approach to engaging all ages with the Biblical narrative. A "teller" reads a Bible story; uses tactile resources to help draw in the listener. A time of "questing" invites to participants to "wonder"; what would happen if, where they would be in the story, etc. The teller then finishes the story.
A group of Graceway people gathered on Wednesday to learn more.
We were helped by Ian Mobsby from moot, in UK. It's good to be pushing new areas, new ways of telling the Christian story, new ways of being creative in community.
When Ian did it, he held everyone at Graceway including our kids aged 2-12, quiet for 20 minutes. And its not just for kids. It invites everyone to use their God-given imagination in quiet wonder and awe at God's story.
posted by spirit2go team at 3:31 PM
Blog worth watching
Health warning. This person can think!
posted by spirit2go team at 3:38 AM
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Breathing space
It has been a busy week. Sunday I shot a video of me talking on postmodern and mission. Tuesday I did my 5 minute radio rant, then lectured for 3 hours on Derrida and deconstruction. Also on Tuesday the video I shot was shown and I was nervously distant, wondering how it would be received. Would it connect? Wednesday I drove down to Taupo, then spoke on postmodernism and mission. Then Thursday, today, I lecture for 3 hours on justice, powers and urban mission. So I had to drive back to Auckland from Taupo this morning.
On the way down to Taupo on Wednesday I had hosted 2 passengers. A lot of talking. A lot of getting to know you. (Note for Andrew Hamilton :: my passenger was Steve Smith, so I caught some of your story from his perspective!) But still it felt like work.
Today I was alone. I turned up the new Salmonella Dub album, loud and just drove. 4 hours. Breathing space, a time to just exist. What heaven.
Track 1 - Long-time
be cool with your space
slow your pace
its not a race
I am very ambivalent about this lifestyle. I get very introspective – is it worth it to talk this much? Does it make any difference to people? Could my time be better spent elsewhere? How does this impact my family? What is the best way to bring about change on behalf of the emerging church?
posted by spirit2go team at 10:08 PM
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Green kiwi blog
New blog .. enviro ... Kiwi ...looks promising.
posted by spirit2go team at 5:06 AM
Monday, September 15, 2003
Clark Pinnock
Went to here theologian Clark Pinnock talk last nite. I loved his book, The Flame of Love. A wonderful exploration of the Spirit ... as warm lover, as creative integrator. The book has been very important in the way I have sought to give much more prominence to Pentecost in my ministry; to Enliven this year as a creative arts offering, to Spirit Postcards placed in cafes.
Clark was very humble and gracious in his topic "My life and theology". He spoke of his movement from rationality to seeing the need for the Spirit, especially in community. However, he was a bit stuck on his current theological controversies.
posted by spirit2go team at 11:53 PM
Worth it
Salmonella Dub's new CD is out. Some great tracks for alt.worship; especially Survivor - a moody, ambient, spiritual sound that would be great with images pulsating behind.
Not musically innovative on their earlier work, but when you're in the groove, why not keeping pumping out great dub music. Great album design, shots of Kaikoura and Canterbury.
posted by spirit2go team at 12:20 PM
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Video again
Just shot another video of me ranting on postmodernity and mission. I am speaking at 2 Baptist pastors gatherings this week. One in-video (Tuesday), one in-person (Wednesday evening). Will be interesting to see how these different format's go - which is more effective.
posted by spirit2go team at 3:51 AM
A happy holiday
posted by spirit2go team at 3:43 AM
Monday, September 08, 2003
A toast
Final draft of thesis is done and sent to my father-in-law for an educated, lay-reader's read; 5 months worship observation, 48 survey forms, 15 interviews, visits to UK and Australasian alternative worship groups, 130,000 words, including appendices.
My concluding sentence, "Alternative worship" is an effective new way of being church in a postmodern world."
Having worked dawn to midnight for the last 10 days, I am off on holiday. See you Sunday.
posted by spirit2go team at 8:11 PM
Rant: Christian naivity
I heard last week that a Levi’s 501® jean ad had been banned in New Zealand
The one where the woman emerges from the sea. Dressed in her newly re-cut original jeans, dripping wet. And the slogan “born again.”
Well, apparently its been banned by the Television Complaints Authority. Some Christians complained that born again was a religious phrase.
Following the initial complaint, Levi’s revised the ad and deleted the tag line “Born Again, but to no avail. The ad was banned. Jean sales however, have continue to increase. They at least have been re-born.
I presume it was some full baptism Christians who complained and not any of the infant sprinkling denominations.
So once again Christians come across as wowsers. Society’s whingers. The people who complain and take the moral high ground.
So different from Jesus. In the gospels, Jesus is accused of being a drunkard and a glutton. I mean, how much fun and laughter and food consumption do you have to have at a party to be mistaken for a drunk. So here is Jesus full of life and laughter, while us, his 21st century followers are whinging moralizers.
We’re also naïve. We’ve lost another opportunity to build connections with people.
Most of us know the church is in decline. We often relate that just to numbers. But its far more serious. Its also a decline in public discussion of Christianity. Callum Brown analyses this in his book The death of Christian Britian. He looks at short stories and novels in 18th century Britian. And he finds them full of Christian themes. So Christianity is in the arts and in the public marketplace. It shapes the talk around society’s tables. It makes it a whole lot easier to find faith when you have some hooks to hang it on.
Callum Brown then looks at culture today. And Christian Britian today is dead not because of church decline, but because Christianity is no longer part of society’s discussion. Its no longer in the short stories and novels. Its’ no longer shaping soceity’s talk around tables.
So today people have so few hooks to hang Christianity on, and we have so few hooks to start a conversation.
So I frequent my local café. It’s one of my spiritual disciplines. Not just drinking the coffee. But going to the same local café. It means I build up a relationship. So earlier this year, after I’ve been going a year, they finally pop the question – what do you do for a job. Always a great conversation killer when you’re a minister. You’re a what ... long, embarrassed pause in conversation A church minister. OH .
Anyhow, my local café owner looks at me and say “oh do you believe in re-birthing”.
And it turns out he’s not got me, minister, mixed up with some New Age cult group.
He was sent to a Baptist Sunday School and somewhere in the recesses of his mind he is trying to connect God, baptism and water. And the only language he’s now got is re-birthing. Eventually we establish he’s talking about baptism.
And this is my point. At least when the Levi jeans ad was on, at least when that woman is emerging dripping wet and “born again,” I’ve got some hook to connect Christianity to local café owner.
Sure it’s not the best baptism image. Sure its ironic and slightly demeaning. But at least it’s a start.
We’ve got so few hooks left. So why are Christians so naïve? Why are we busy complaining?
Jesus says be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. So what so we do 2000 years later? Become naïve whingers.
Bring back the Levis ad I say. Then at least when I baptise some unchurched friends in a few weeks, and when they bring their unchurched friends along to watch, I can haul out the Levis ad, and say, see that hook, well let me tell you the full story.
posted by spirit2go team at 8:05 PM
Postmodern pastor wanted
The pastoral role in the context of liminality is that of articulating the congregation’s experience in modernity. In this sense, pastors must reinterpret their roles not primarily as caregivers but as poets. Poets are the articulators of experience and the rememberers of tradition. They image and symbolize the unarticulated experiences of the community .… The poet listens to the pain and questioning emerging from the fragmentation and alienation dwelling within modern people – the loneliness of our individualism as experienced by those in our congregations .... The poet’s vocation is to bring these voices to expression so that we may listen again to the voice of God speaking into our situation of marginality.
quote from Alan Roxburgh, The Missionary Congregation, Leadership and Liminality.
posted by spirit2go team at 5:30 PM
Enliven Spring Soulstice :: September 21
For those who want to live closer to earth and seasons,
For those seeking some new spring life in their spirituality
3:30-5:30 Spring spirituality micro-quest :: (with Jo Wieland, experienced Spiritual Director, a degree in Pyschology and Practical Theology and a concern for wholeness, helping people put on Jesus in all aspects of life - cost $5 for materials and guidance )
6:15 – 7:15 Soulstice worship :: a monthly Christian liturgy, with an environmental and seasonal feel,
Ellerslie War Memorial Hall. For more info www.graceway.org.nz/soulstice.html
This is a new idea for us at Graceway. An expression of our commitment to God as Creator. Part of our desire to offer spirituality in bite-sized chunks for people, to offer a multiplicity of ways to find God.
PS. Rich just commented wanting more. Graceway is committed to a distributed spirituality. We can send you the micro-retreat and soulstice worship. You can do it at the same time as us. We can then share experiences together (create a blog or msn chat). If you would like to participate in our Enliven Spring retreat, let me know.
posted by spirit2go team at 1:16 PM
Sunday, September 07, 2003
No regrets
I was married today, 13 years ago. One of the best decisions I ever made.
posted by spirit2go team at 11:34 PM
Saturday, September 06, 2003
In transition
During birth, the period between contractions and pushing, just as the cervix fully dilates, is called transition. During this time, various grumpy comments and outrageous statements can be made, such as, “I’m going home” or “This was all your fault.”
I am in transition. I am making the final changes to my PhD on mission and worship in a postmodern world, with particular reference to emerging church. Then I can send it off for a final read from editorial friends and supervisors. I am sitting at the computer, grumping and making statements like “I will never write again.”
Please pray for my stretched cervix!
posted by spirit2go team at 5:37 PM
Friday, September 05, 2003
Great to be alive
Some days I wake up and go "God its great to be in pastoral ministry." Today is one of them. I get to do a home baby blessing. Phone call from someone in the community looking for a service for their baby.
I have 2 rules - they write the service and I come back in a year's time, lit a candle and talk with them about their words. It makes for authencity all around and gives me ongoing contact. Today's the day, when I get to speak these "design-a" words with this couple and their friends.
I just love being with people in this situation - their turf, their spirituality, their joy.
This is the second blessing with this family. As a by-product of last time, they've been along to a Christmas service and the guy has joined one of our pub groups. What will today bring?
posted by spirit2go team at 10:09 PM
Blogger is running like a slow dog
It is taking me about 5 minutes to log into blogger and often the page loads with missing bits - no "post and publish" button. Is it just me? I thought moving to google was meant to make this baby hum?
posted by spirit2go team at 10:03 PM
We're in the rabbit hole and its time to dream again folks
It is here and now, in the very darkness of the postmodern labyrinth that we must begin again to listen to the story of imagination. For it is perhaps in its tale of the self relating to the other, that we will discover a golden thread which leads beyond the labyrinth. Kearney, The Wake of Imagination.
posted by spirit2go team at 4:11 AM
Good blog
Over at ramblin man.
1. It's from the UK, not the USA. (Why are there so many US blogs, I yawn?)
2. He likes Lies Damned Lies, a great band out of Glasgow via Late Late Service (Late Late Service where one of the really early alt.worship kids on the block.
3. He links to my blog, unbeknown to me.
posted by spirit2go team at 3:50 AM
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
God plays with creation
All that is play that the deity gives itself
It has imagined the creature for itself
- poem by Angelus Silesius.
What might it mean for our Christian faith to follow a playful God?
posted by spirit2go team at 3:54 PM
Monday, September 01, 2003
Cyber Kool
Just got an email " Hello...
Tom Beaudoin referred me to your web site."
Tom's book, Virtual Faith was a very helpful window into Gen X spirituality. It took us seriously. It provided a methodology that opened new mission windows.
Tom, it's nice to have your lurking.
posted by spirit2go team at 2:37 PM
1st day of spring
I have some big decisions to make
… the new and the old
… what is and what might be
… new beginnings and fresh starts
I would appreciate any stray wisdom prayers.
God give me the ears to hear
posted by spirit2go team at 3:31 AM
Information Technology - Church - Culture
Invitation from: Tim Bulkeley and RJ Thompson Centre for
Theological Studies
Who: Theologians, Pastors, Web Designers, Programmers, and
other Christian IT professionals
What: Afternoon café (Coffee by Atomic)
When: Saturday 4th October 2003 4-6pm
Where: Carey Baptist College, 473 Great South Road, Penrose
Why: to meet chat, network and perhaps plan future gatherings
The idea of this gathering is to enable Christian computer
professionals, and religious professionals with an interest in IT to
meet and network. We will discuss plans for the future possibly
including themed meetings, presentations of work in progress,
projects etc. The aim is to develop a network of useful contacts and
an environment of supportive critical discourse around the interface
of IT with Christian faith and practice. What shape such possible
future meetings might take will be decided by those who attend.
If you know of others who might be interested to attend please
forward this message to them. To assist with catering it would be
helpful if you would email Tim if you expect to be there, any
questions also to tim@carey.ac.nz
posted by spirit2go team at 3:28 AM