My cousin a few times removed sent me a link to The New Conspirators conference happening is Seattle in late February. This looks to be a very interesting event to explore the Emerging Church and other efforts to find a new and authentic gospel expression in our age. And it's in Seattle, which is where I was born and have visited many times. I'm sure I'd come away pretty excited by the possibilities.
-t
2 comments:
Tay, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the "Beyond Belief" conference that took place for the second time in San Diego this year. It's a curious phenomenon, promoting atheism, I suppose. I only have briefly watched video clips at thesciencenetwork.com after being introduced to it by a buddy who has lots of significant questions about the Bible as Truth. He was raised in a fundamentalist Baptist family and is rather enjoying, and anxious about, the freedom he feels leaving the confines of his belief infrastructure. I haven't read a whole lot on your blog, but it seems like entertaining that topic may be right on track here. What do you think?
Bradley, NC Yoder cousin of Betsy
Interesting. I'll have to look into that. Feeling free to pursue one's religious yearnings is a very important part of the spiritual life, and any church that makes people feel constrained in this way is obviously doing something wrong. I remember a key part of my spiritual formation was discovering that I was free to form my own authentic relationship with God on my (adult) terms.
I have come across attempts at a kind of secular theology or morality which claim to be post-Christian, but are obviously cutting off large branches of the Judeo-Christian ethical worldview and trying to find some new stump to graft them to. A good sign of this is when people start talking about how "good" Jesus was "as a teacher" who just wanted us to all get along and stop fighting. They therefore accept many Christian claims about Jesus, but ignore the most important (i.e. his role in Salvation history)!
I'm not disparaging all humanists by any means, I'm just pointing out a fault I've seen in some.
-t
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