Richard Laribee's Page

Your Anglican Church Body Affiliation (CofE, TEC, AMiA...) - Leave blank if not applicable

TEC

Your Diocese

Maryland

Your City

Columbia

Your Parish

St Marks Episcopal Church, Highland MD

Your parish website

http://www.stmarkshighland.ang-md.org

Your blog (if you have one)

http://re-marks.blogspot.com/

Your Anglican 'Species'

Priest

Your 'Day Job'

Rector

What you do for fun and re-creation?

Sailing; Travel

What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?

Failure to see the Great Commission (spiritual growth, making disciples in spiritual communities) as crucial, urgent, and important
Failure to see mission as essential and integral to faith, spiritual community, and institutional health
Failure to understand evangelism and to see evangelism as crucial mission
Failure to see the institutional component of faith as just one part of faith, leading to an overemphasis on institutional structures;
Addiction to power
Addiction to liberalism's and/or conservativism's side issues
Failure to understand institutional structures as technologies suited for modernity; such that entirely different institutional structures/technologies are required in post-modern contexts

What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?

Increasing number of Anglicans who are aware that the world has changed, and who exploring and living into new realities

What do you want Anglimergent to be? and what other Anglimergent resources, gatherings, activities or events would you find helpful for your ministry?

Anglimergent has the potential for creating mutually beneficial networks for emergent communities within Anglicanism -- which is essential because the evangelical / protestant emergent communities don't really "get" us. They like adapting many of our esthetics, but don't really understand that we're neither non-denominationalists nor congregationalists nor individualists, even though they think they understand these things. So even though we have much in common with the evangelical emergents, and hopefully, will experience increasing convergence, we Anglicans really do need some Anglimergent networking, brainstorming, collaboration, and pub chatting!