I was just reading Mark Sayers latest reflection on the emerging missional church: The Emerging Missional Church Fractures into Mini Movements. Mark classifies the emerging mini movements as follows: Neo-Anabaptists: “Some have called this movement the new monastics … This movement tends to be pacifist, favours incarnational living amongst the urban poor, and has a strong distrustContinue reading “Emerging Mini Movements”
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Subcultural Church: Reverse Discrimination?
Do you think subcultural church planting could be viewed as an ecclesiological form of reverse discrimination? In the civil rights movement, reverse discrimination is a common term used to describe policies or acts that discriminate a dominant or majority group in favour of a group historically discriminated against, with the aim of redressing imbalances. However, reverse discrimination hasContinue reading “Subcultural Church: Reverse Discrimination?”
Emerging Churchianity
What’s your understanding of the difference between churchianity and Christianity? I was just reading Sally’s comments about being fed up with churchianity. Coincidence maybe, but I wrote some stuff to our mission team about churchianity earlier in the week. Maybe there is something in the air. In any case it prompts me to ask the question. The thingContinue reading “Emerging Churchianity”
Called to be different
Here’s my reflection for the day: You can’t make a difference to the world If you’re no different from the world
Globalized Christianity and World Christianity: Understanding the Difference
I wonder how many Americans understand the difference between Globalized Christianity and World Christianity? If my experience with American Christian, American Atheist and American Pagan blogs is anything to go by, I would have to conclude … only a minority. For example, in a recent conversation about Rob Bell, some Emergents said, “…there are two completely differentContinue reading “Globalized Christianity and World Christianity: Understanding the Difference”
Emergent Franciscan?
Is it just me or does it seem like some of the Emergent folk are a wee bit confused on the difference between Catholic and Anglican? Take this comment for instance: The kind of Reformation Rohr is talking about here seems to me distinctively Franciscan (Rohr is a Franciscan himself, of course) as well asContinue reading “Emergent Franciscan?”
Lone Ranger Christianity
Helen Lee writes: “It’s fine to use religious media as an addition if you are part of a local Christian community,” says Lindsay. “It becomes problematic if you have no binding commitment to a local community and you become a Lone Ranger Christian. Before long your faith becomes something you put on and off likeContinue reading “Lone Ranger Christianity”
Goth Church
I will not be making it to the Under the Blue Moon Festival this year, but I was interested to hear that it kicked off with a goth church service. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: “HYMNS were sidelined for the music of Nick Cave and a choral cover of the heavy metal band Metallica, and candlesContinue reading “Goth Church”
Emerging Diversity
The running discussion over on Steve Hayes’ blog on emerging orthodoxy and heresy has gotten me thinking about why some find it so hard to grasp what’s going on in the emerging church conversation. And I think some of it has to do with the shear diversity of sources emerging church leaders are drawing on.Continue reading “Emerging Diversity”
Hillsong Conference Quote
From the Hillsong Conference in Europe, as quoted by Christianity Today earlier this week: “The church is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body in which he speaks and acts and fills everything with his presence.” I don’t know about you but I have realContinue reading “Hillsong Conference Quote”
Curious Christian 