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USA Edition: Ancient Faith Future Mission - fresh expressions of church in the sacramental traditions

March 7, 2010 RSS Feed

Really pleased to say that the first book of the Series Ancient Faith Future Mission is now on Sale in a North American version in the USA. This includes the original authors Rowan Williams, Stephen Cottrell, Ian Adams, Sue Wallace, Karen Ward, Brian McLaren Richard Giles, Carl Turner, Phyllis Tickle, Paige Blair, Michael Volland, Philip [...]

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New Monastic approach to Mission

September 23, 2009 RSS Feed

I think this vid is quite helpful, yes it is very American, but I do think it marks out the issues.

Dave Fitch - the Cultivate Talk on Missional Orders from Bill Kinnon on Vimeo.

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Attractional v Missional Models of Church

March 24, 2009 RSS Feed

I have now finished two out of the three lectures I am giving at Carey Baptist College in Auckland.  Today I explored the socio-cultural forces behind neo-spirituality driven by information technology and consumerism, and then explored a Trinitarian Ecclesiology as a basis of Christian Spirituality to engage with a context of neo-mysticism.  Finally, we looked [...]

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Renewal through New Monastics

August 1, 2008 RSS Feed

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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BBC Radio Ulster Feature on New Monasticism

July 27, 2008 RSS Feed

Mark McCleary of the Moot Community, who assisted  me on the last speaking tour in Vancouver and Seattle, completed this interesting little report on New Monasticism for Radio Ulster.  It includes interviews with Karen Ward, myself and other members of the Church of the Apostles Community in Seattle.
Moot and Church of the Apostles are sister [...]

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