Church of the Apostles in Seattle held an emerging church learning party This past Saturday at their meeting space (abbey). I want to play and learn like that too. I’ve been trying to see if some other emerging church folks in W. Michigan would be interested in doing something like this. Maybe I’ll explore this with the [...]
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I am a big fan of the material put out by the altworship folks in the UK. I think they have a really great way of taking the historical rituals patterns and breathing new life into them.
Her are some other alt worship links I’ve come across recently
Sue Wallace: An A to Z of Alternative [...]
What if faith is like jazz? After a reading Blue Like Jazz, having a EWM conversation with Steve Argue where he suggested we think of doctrine as being like a song and Anthony Smith sharing a quote from Rodney Clapp " jazz can correct what James Cone, I am afraid with all too much justification, has called the "the [...]
If you ever want your church to be reviewed like a Broadway show or movie? Then check out this web site Church Review and Guide.
"Well Bob I give it a 7 for worship style, a 8.5 for creativity & 6.4 for bible form. That’s a final score of not recommended"
Well I give this a for bias and [...]
Last week I got to hear Brian McLaren in a conversation with two other folks who are not embedded in the emerging church conversation discuss what’s emerging in the emerging church?
When pressed to say what the Emergent folks think the Emerging church should stand for I was gratified that Brian said the following are issues [...]
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Last week I met a new friend Anthony Smith known in the blogosphere as postmodernegro. He was in Grand Rapids to be on a panel and present a paper a t the Civitas Conference at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
Anthony is one well read brother. He is conversant in the dialog going on in many spheres of theology [...]
Cornel West Princeton professor and Counselor West in the Matrix movies has written a powerful analysis of the lessons exposed by the new Orleans disaster. Ironically the piece is in an English newspaper.
He is challenging us to to move beyond rhetoric to real reform. To realize the plight that still exists for the poor and disenfranchised [...]
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While many people have decried Kanye West’s comments about the Bush administration and black people there is little hue and cry about Christians who describe the New Orleans disaster as God’s way of cleansing the "sinful" city. So into the void comes on Chicago DJ. Who asks Do you believe in sin?
It is at once [...]
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