Tag: Missiology
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Church in Mission: Culture and Jesus The Missionary Pt 2.
This post is a part of a series where I am addressing the churchs mission as it pertains (or doesnt) to relevancy within culture. I am trying to build the majority of discussion around John Howard Yoders work in his For the Nations.” Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part […]
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Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away
Online communities continue to grow Myspace, Virb, Facebook, delicious, flickr, twitter, digg, 30boxes, box.net, etc, etc, all offer a way for people to share and stay in touch. I personally like the attention web 2.0 companies have paid to making the web more interactive in this way. I use many of the services above, and […]
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Towards a Post-Foundationalist Quaker Theology: Slavoj Zizek, Quietism and Pink Dandelion
Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology. He begins by presenting the challenge of two choices: How is a Marxist to counter all the various thoughts” of the post-modern […]
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Trends within the Convergent Friends Conversation
Last week I went to a Friends conference (FWCC) in Rhode Island, and have already talked about it at some length. But the point of this short post was to point out a number of trends, or characteristics that I saw beginning to frame the overall conversation of convergent Friends.
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Making Our Homes Centers of Missional Activity
My good friend and collegue JR Rozko recently wrote an article for Mere Mission called Missional Home Makers.