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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
Christmas :: God
made flesh. God enters humanity.
Mike Riddell used a sexual metaphor to describe the union. He developed it in his novel, The Insatiable Moon. The ethics of the union ended his tenure at (Mike's union with) Carey Baptist College.
But the theology was superb. The embodied God, united with human flesh. Divine consumation.
Oh the dignity of humanity
Oh the joy of bodies.
Christmas=Union, of God and human.
posted by spirit2go team at 3:23 PM
sorry for the slow publishing
posted by spirit2go team at 2:46 PM
Good on Ya Steve,
I knew you'd come to the party.
One win98 rebuild later, the guest is back.
The Sidedoor Christmas journey is off. A labrinyth of hay bales, A car with a naked manequin wiseman (and the cards (3 kings) on the bonnet has crashed into the star, stick men walk the journey with you. There's Gold, (well almost), and a bus filled with T.V. Screens, slide projectors and cushions.
Took the family around it yesterday, invited a heap of friends for the next few days.
last year it turns out one of my daughters friends ended up joining a church because of it.
The shops are packed, the carparks are getting hotter and over the buzz of an overheated city, I can hear the surf calling my name...
Two christmas thoughts..
Dessert is just stressed spelled backwards.
A child overheard Praying...
Forgive us our christmasses as we forgive those who christmas against us.
As for LOTR, Steve will beat me there. Bit it'll happen. Mordor's time has always been under threat. The little people will inherit.
posted by spirit2go team at 5:58 PM
[grid blog :: source]
The source of life {Trinity}
Out::sourced life {Incarnation}
So that we might re::source Kingdom life {Ecclesiology}
Which means that mission, life for others, is at the heart of Trinity. Which means that church, wagons circled, defensive, enjoying itself, enjoying its worship,
is a disjuntive, disordering, misrepresenting of the Source of Life.
posted by spirit2go team at 5:44 PM
Late in December
Looking to release
Return of the King
Wait
Anticipate
Prepare
Advent in December
Looking forward
Return of the King
Looking back
Birth of the King
Wait
Anticipate
Prepare
Lord of the Rings pre-release = Advent waiting
Or is that too much,
Of a [:: stretch]?
posted by spirit2go team at 6:42 PM
One of New Zealand's finest exports coming to a screen near you soon. Lord of the Rings shows that Kiwis are not just beautiful and scenic, but creative and innovative.
For some Kiwi insights a theological perspective on LOTR, try here, and also here, but you have to download it to view it.
At Graceway, they have run Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, extended, DVD version, over this weekend, in order to help tune the community back in.
posted by spirit2go team at 12:41 PM
Looks like I'm the guest blogger. Not sure if I can do it justice.
Steve rang me just before he shot off on holiday (Have a great one Steve), and tagged me as his fill-in.
In Kiwi land pre-Christmas is nutty, we do the same 40% of sales that the US does in those 4 weeks before Christmas, but we follow it up by almost completely shutting up shop in January.
It's the middle of Summer, days are long. The sun shines and crisps any unprepared skin. The grass needs mowing more and most colleges, and Universitys are shut.
Sounds great once January hits, but it means everyone wants everything done before Christmas. Nothing like a bit of pre-christmas stress.
How I'm going to manage to put anything of worth on here remains to be seen...
Plans for this Advent sunday at Ilam are to look at the domestication of Christmas. How it's been turned inwards and de-politicised into a sacharine hallmark card. Going to try to play with the political overtones of Mary speech and look at what a 'Wild side christmas' might look like. I found "Christmas unwrapped: consumerism, Christ and Culture" edited by Richard Horsley and James Tracey a fascinating read for this.
The last few years a chap down in Christchurch has run an Christmas Labyrinth with stations and art spots. Just found out I'm outfitting a derelict bus as part of this, with a focus on journeying. I'm planning to black out the inside of the bus, throw some bean bags around, and have a series of T.V.s rolling Christmas journey quotes. So if there are keen people reading this, I'm looking for quotes, funny or otherwise that might be linked to Christmas journeys.
If it turns out that people keep reading this in Steve's absence (he'll be back in Jan) I'll fill you in on who I am and what I'm doing... Til then
posted by spirit2go team at 6:54 PM