Archive for the 'emerging church' Category
Dion has a great post about some web 2.0 concepts that are popping up in other fields like law, media, and advertising among others. In the post, he states the following about some of the web 2.0 concepts:But that’s just the beginning. The interrelated, mutually reinforcing concepts in Web 2.0 like true disintermediation, customer self-service, […]
One of the threads drawing me to the emergent conversation is the interest in God’s heart for the poor. Tim recently posted an entry on his representation of emergent to the Micah Challenge-USA board over on the emergent-us blog. It is encouraging to see emergent involved in the struggle to end poverty.
The Micah […]
Andrew started a conversation on the parallels between the emerging church and web2.0. I think the similarities are interesting in that they are symptoms or manifestations of the environment they are coming from and how the web2.0 evolution might shed light on things to come for the church. Here is my attempt to articulate some fuddled, hazy thoughts on the subject.
Emerging church meets web2.0
Here is a fun intersection between the emerging church and web2.0. The cloud below comes from TagCloud. I built the cloud by combining feeds from blogs listed on Andrew Jones’ blog and the emerging church wiki. In total there are about 20 feeds. There should be more, but I wasn’t able to find the feed […]
Si has a post with some reflections on justice and mission. It got me thinking. In it he mentions Greg’s question regarding the story of the leper from Mark2 Who brought whom to Jesus? Was it the four who brought the one or the one who brought the four?”
He’s tired, confused, and lonely. He’s not much older than 30.
No where else to go. He has six months to live.
A life of intoxication, maybe drugs, numbing his senses to the pain and rejection of this world… of his lifestyle.
Late nights? Women’s clothes. Transvestite.
He’s dying. There’s no where else to go. He has six months to live.
He can’t sleep. The haunting of death. The comfort of mom.
Delirium and tremors. Alcohol withdraw. Valium.
They comfort him. They love him. They change him.
He runs away for a drink. They lead him back. He has six months to live.
He’s gentle. He has a kind heart. He has a beautiful smile.
He receives the sacrament. They anoint his head with oil. He falls into their arms.
They carry him. They mourn him. He receives him.
After my crude attempts to put this to words, I think it is both. Thanks for the encouragement and the reflection Si. Keep writing.
It is fascinating to me that some of the things that have been happening in my discipline (computer science) also seem to be happening to the church. Andrew referenced this in his blog today. My first exposure to some of the background to what was happening (both in software and in the culture at large) first came from ESR’s book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Eric first wrote the book “online” before it was later printed and published. This is something that perhaps some of the emergent authors should explore– first putting their thoughts, ideas, and theology online before or while publishing it. This might nurture, for good or bad, some of the decentralized contribution that has benefited software in the opensource movement. Some of this is clearly happening now through blogs and other online media but it would be interesting to see what would happen if it was applied to more formal and typically more lengthy collections of thoughts such as books.
Perhaps those working/assisting/struggling with the emerging church (and the context) could learn something from what has happened with software and the opensource movement. A good place to start would be the The Cathedral and the Bazaar and some of the related writings and critiques that ESR has compiled on the same site. We might learn something about spiritual formation from the hacker culture too.
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