Digital Orthodoxy

The aim of the book is not to tell you how to run an “Experimental Church” but instead to paint a picture of their community, the people within it and the daily rhythm of the community’s life together in worship, service and community. As you read through the book you can start imagining the activities, the community’s life, the people, the community in which they live and as you begin to imagine, the people and the stories begin to take form and speak to you.

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In that Jamieson’s work is framed within the EPC ethos, his book will be a source of hope and direction for many Protestants. It would be interesting to see how his findings might stack up against similar research among Catholics and Orthodox. I suspect it would be enriched rather than modified, though perhaps these more sacramental traditions might understand and allow for a freer movement in faith development. I happen to think that in fact those ancient traditions may hold more clues than either liminal or EPC churches might realise.

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Dave’s book “Plan Be” he reminds us of a plan that was once shared with us by a carpenters son who preached on a mountain top about a simple way in which we can all focus on what really matters and remember what it really means to be fully human. As he delves into the beattitudes (the Be-Attitudes) we’re reminded that it wasn’t meant to be a list of things that it’d-be-nice-for-us-to-do-but-are-possibly-too-hard-for-the-average-person but instead were meant to be a liberating release to people enslaved by an ideal that was way too hard to live up to.

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First of all, if you’re not American, don’t bother about reading the book, it’s full of American culture, reflections, political references and definitions of faith. The book also is a study of a demographic that is American, the studies were not based in the UK, or Australia, or for that matter anywhere else, so the interviews, results and stories will not be accurate to your situation. Yes, I read it, but the reality from the first chapter for me was that it was describing a completely alien culture to that which I’m a part of and familiar with.

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This week I’ve had a chance to look through “Exilio” the new resource by Forge Australia, a “24 week small group study” based on the book “Exiles” by Michael Frost. The resource was officially launched at the Forge 2008 “Grassroots Festival” only a week ago, some people might have already grabbed a copy, or ordered [...]

Society in Britain has changed dramatically in the last 30 years, especially in terms of our understanding of community and how we relate to one another. One of the responses of the Church has been to plant new churches and create ‘fresh expressions’ of church; churches that relate to our changing context.

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