Countdown Day 71
Roman Catholicism found itself in a situation remarkably similar to Protestantism … splitting themselves into left/liberal and right/conservative parties, both sides increasingly reacting to one another and losing touch with the changing world outside their religiously gated community. (9)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
This quote provides a great opportunity to point to an important new website - Cathlimergent. Check it out!
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Q & R: Youth Ministry
Here the Q:
"Hi Brian, thnx for being a clear & generous voice in the emerging choir. I was thinking about what you said once about faith, hope and love. You said: faith > spirituality, hope > mission and love > community. I would like to create a curriculum (learning and doing) for our youth group following these words, beginning with spirituality (spiritual discipline). Do you have any ideas about how the translation of spiritual disciplines from the past (early church) to young people living in 2009? I'm excited about the new time in church history. After almost 500 years there is a new reformation going on. Will you come to the netherlands once?! Greetings
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Countdown Day 72
Modern Protestantism in both its liberal and conservative forms was being lost in transition and lost in translation. Both forms of modernist Christianity seemed equally clueless in understanding the nonmodern and postmodern people outside their stained-glass windows. (8)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Still praying for Copenhagen …
Some encouraging news from the White House here.
This is not all many of us hoped for, and it still requires passage in our fractious Congress. But it is better than many of us expected. You can read the prayer for Copenhagen here ...
Or listen to it (and join in now) here ...
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Countdown Day 73
In the modern era, nearly all our Protestant denominations took shape. They were institutional children of the era of Sir Isaac Newton, the conquistadors, colonialism, the Enlightenment, nationalism, and capitalism. Each denomination made sense of Christianity within the lines and boxes of modernity. You might say they rewrote and rearranged the ancient data of Christianity in a modern program, programming language, paradigm, or framework. (8)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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