This from today’s segment from Becoming the Authentic Church: Movable Theoblogical: Getting to Know (Really Know) Each Another when we see that the same cultural systems that have so deeply hurt some have made life easier for others we begin to recognize how much we all need healing. We are the injured and the injurees. We need to receive and Continue Reading
See Flash Video of part 3 of my conversation with Gordon Cosby, where he talks about how he thinks I’ve been “ruined” See Flash Video of part 2 of my conversation with Gordon Cosby, where he talks about the latest focus on “Authentic Church” and “the least of these” See Flash Video of part 1 of my conversation with Gordon Continue Reading
Eric commented on the post below that includes the section on Extreme Diversity. re-reading it once again, it is truly an important section of this striving to be and to embody authentic church. Movable Theoblogical: The “Basics” The world has told us that we are “opposed” to one another because of our differences, but this is an illusion. We are Continue Reading
Someone took this picture for me, but the camera took so long to actually take the picture, that I got caught with my eyes closed, and Gordon quit smiling, but ……well, there it is.
how to become so much like Jesus that our very way of life comforts the world’s brokenhearted and confronts the world’s broken systems-is a key question for all who seek authentic, faithful belonging. This little snippet that I have now placed up in my banner points to the Journey Inward, Journey Outward duality/reality in which The Church of the Saviour Continue Reading
It’s not often that I feel hesitant about what I want to say in writing. But as I have been posting the sections of the booklet The Authentic Church, I am only in awe of the images these words evoke. Gordon Cosby and Karla McLung have written about their vision for the church and what might help it to become Continue Reading
Movable Theoblogical: Becoming The Authentic Church For me the central question is what it means to be the authentic church of Jesus Christ, crucified and resurrected. What is its nature? Its essence? And how can that essence be structured and expressed so as to become a healing agent for the world? It’s not a question any longer of which issues Continue Reading
The items in Authentic Church are lifted entirely from the Booklet, and my comments will be set apart with a different format, like this , for instance THE “GIVENS” OF BEING AUTHENTIC CHURCH THE.AUTHENTIC CHURCH IS AN OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF GOD, WHO IS LOVE. In love and through love, the new community is created. God, who is by nature unlimited Continue Reading
The items in Authentic Church are lifted entirely from the Booklet, and my comments will be set apart with a different format, like this , for instance At the heart of each of us is a driving hunger for ways to five and be in relationship that are genuine. So it is with churches as well. As unique and different Continue Reading
This is the first post in a series of posts from the Booklet Becoming the Authentic Church: A Guide Toward Being in Diverse, healing Community Rooted in Reconciliation and Justice . My firend Bob and I have taken these thoughts and begun to take concrete steps toward finding this Authenitc Church (he in his setting and I in mine) You Continue Reading
I left last Thursday for DC, drove all day (11 hours), and got to Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in the panhandle of W.Va. near Washington DC (well, about 70 miles out) about 1030pm. My friend Bob Sabath now makes his home there. I spent Friday and Saturday night at Bob’s old house in Mt. Ranier MD just over the DC/Maryland Continue Reading
I just spoke with my friend Bob, who lives in Harpers Ferry, WV, about 70 miles northwest of DC, on a property that contains a Retreat Center called Rolling Ridge. He also has a house in Mt. Ranier, Maryland , which is about 20 minutes from COS that has a gust room avaialble if I didn’t want to make the Continue Reading
I will be meeting with Gordon Cosby Monday Nov.14. I hope to have a good conversation about the church. (In fact, I rather expect it)
This is a chilling and sobering sermon from the collection I mentioned in the previous post. This guy has given up a lucrative medical practice to go and live and work amongst the poor in Washington DC, working in at leat a couple of different missions of the Church of the Saviour’s health ministries. He is a member of the Continue Reading
In this post a month ago, I pointed to a story about a doctor who moved to Washington DC to work in various medical missions of the Church of the Saviour. I found a link to the 8th Day community — one of COS’s churches— and several sermons Dr. Hilfiker has given there Movable Theoblogical: Joseph’s House