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December 29, 2006
December 27, 2006
Inherent Unmarketability
How do you make attractive that which is not?
How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability and nonsuccess?
How do you talk about descent when everything is about ascent?
How can you possibly market letting-go in a capitalist culture?
How do you present Jesus to a Promethean mind?
How do you talk about dying to a church trying to appear perfect?
This is not going to work (which might be my first step).
From Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr
How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability and nonsuccess?
How do you talk about descent when everything is about ascent?
How can you possibly market letting-go in a capitalist culture?
How do you present Jesus to a Promethean mind?
How do you talk about dying to a church trying to appear perfect?
This is not going to work (which might be my first step).
From Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr
December 23, 2006
Faith has come to mean its exact opposite
One of my favorite writers, Richard Rohr, O.F.M. shared his thoughts recently on NPR's "This I Believe"
Click here to read or listen to his short essay. We must begin to believe in the Mystery again or our faith won't resemble faith at all.
Click here to read or listen to his short essay. We must begin to believe in the Mystery again or our faith won't resemble faith at all.
December 12, 2006
An Experimenting Church
Interesting thought that I felt I had to share. I'm thankful that the church I attend has the kind of feel that the quote embodies. It comes from a blog called Small Ritual:
“There isn’t much space or time given nowadays in churches for just
experimenting or being, just to see what happens, even if no-one comes – Just
being your own community by itself growing with God. But as any scientist knows, it’s the purposeless fooling-around non-results-oriented experiments that come up with the big discoveries”