October 2010 Blog Posts (6)

"A New Kind of Christianity": Between Something Real and Something Wrong

This is the third in a nascent series of posts on Brian McLaren's astonishing quest for "A New Kind of Christianity."

Brian's honesty in the Preface carries over into his first chapter, Between Something Real and Something Wrong.

Place: a small town in…

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Added by Bill Roberts on October 28, 2010 at 8:40pm — No Comments

"A New Kind of Christianity" (2)

This is the second [hence the (2) in this post's title!] in a nascent series of posts on Brian McLaren's astonishing quest for "A New Kind of Christianity."

Already in Brian's Preface I knew this would be an approachable and honest book:…

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Added by Bill Roberts on October 26, 2010 at 5:07pm — No Comments

A New Kind of Christianity (1)

On the Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra 2009, I first introduced my blog readers to Brian McLaren with this post. He had been kind enough to allow me to quote extensively from this book,…

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Added by Bill Roberts on October 25, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Low Anxiety Evangelism

Reading my own words in the last post made me nervous. Evangelism scares me. The very word still makes my spine sort of wiggle against the back of my chair. I know this is specific to my odd liberal culture. On NPR, in the New Yorker, and in most of the Episcopal Church “evangelism” is a dirty word.… Continue

Added by Mike Angell on October 20, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Church Creation season invites comments

Friends,

The SCLM is working on developing an optional set of Sundays as a Season for honoring God in the Creation. I want to pose a question to you all (and my email is revjphillips@earthlink.net for more direct replies).

There are some who think we should stick with biblical language and themes - as for instance listed in the benedicite: things like forests, rivers, seas, animals. Others think we need to incorporate 21st century science and not be afraid to use in liturgy some…

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Added by Jennifer Phillips on October 7, 2010 at 7:13am — 2 Comments