I find myself often resisting by default the categories I have set up, feeling as I often do that I can’t really categorize some things as “theological” (and thus in the “Theoblogical” category) and others , well, NOT. I noticed that on Martin’s Blog Flow, he links to my Theoblogical Category, and so I wonder if he’s seeing any of Continue Reading
Things of and from the Church of the Saviour model have led me to renew thinking and pondering The Church of the Saviour Vision and the Weblog in “Weblogs, COS Style”
The Church of the Saviour’s model has stuck with me. I can’t shake it. I don’t hink I’m supposed to. They have an intentional structure desiogned to INSURE that people cannot be merely observers, or quiet devotion-seekers who lap up spiritual nuggets , do their “duty” to God, and then proceed back into the “other life” which is their “real Continue Reading
From the above link to Kevin Kelly’s article in WIRED December 2002: From this perspective, computation seems almost a theological process. It takes as its fodder the primeval choice between yes or no, the fundamental state of 1 or 0. After stripping away all externalities, all material embellishments, what remains is the purest state of existence: here/not here. Am/not am. Continue Reading
From my article: “The Social and Spiritual Realities We Ignore” Many times, I would imagine, we can discover things about people who are already “in our midst” in a physical community to which we have attached but not yet discovered our common call. This would seem to be more likely as Churches begin to discover the value of “Intranets” (the Continue Reading
I read another of the articles in the December Issue of WIRED about studies on the effects of prayer on the sick. The fact that intriguing relationships were found caused me to think about the implications of studies like this for suggesting that perhaps online community could have more backing from those who insist that face to face is the Continue Reading
Some Good stuff from WIRED on Science and Theology, like The Pope’s Astrophysicist which describes a Vatican research group led by Jesuits (those often pesky free-thinkers within the authority of the Church who often seem to push the boundaries of the “confines” of theological thinking)……here they explore the physical boundaries of the cosmos for “clues” of divine design that pose the Continue Reading