August 14, 2008
Thinking about the Emerging Church and governance, I have been reflecting on how many groups have deconstructed things theologically and socio-culturally – but many have not deconstructed governance or power structures. This may be one of the reasons who there is not a 50:50 representation of women in Emerging & Fresh Expressions of Church. One [...]
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August 3, 2008
I have been reflecting a while, why the emerging church sees its international ‘connectivity’ as a ‘conversation’. It is an approach to relatedness that has much criticism. However today, I can see how this concept again relates to a Trinitarian informed connectiveness. Some will know from my two books, that I have hypothesised that there [...]
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August 1, 2008
I have been thinking a lot about two quotes this week. The first from Bonhoeffer on some words he wrote from a prison cell about how he saw a lay movement of new monastics as being a form of church for the modern world. The second, is a quote about how those drawing on a [...]
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