Monthly Archive for April, 2006

Hybridity?

While leafing through the blogosphere this evening I found this on TSK:

But the fact for many western, post-christian countries is that about half or more than half of the believers DO NOT attend a church service on Sunday. As these people find new ways to connect to each other and share spiritual gifts, a new form of complex church is arising that is more complex than “emerging church” [as presented to us by MSM] We cannot therefore talk in binaries. We need to understand the new complexity that I am suggesting that the new hybrid of church for millions of Jesus followers is a complex aggregation of many occasions and meetings and meals and projects and happenings. It is a modular fashion of living out church in community but it is not a pure singular model. It does not resemble the inherited model but neither does it resemble what most people think of when they say “emerging church”. It is a hybrid of both that can only be viewed correctly with this in mind.

Mr Jones has written quite a long post there but maybe reading it will give you a better context. I found it interesting, and relevant.

Unemployment

I just wrote this post and found myself going off on an incoherent and confused rant on the misunderstandings over a good work ethic, or something like that.

Anyway, currently a number of us are finding unemployment quite oppressive. And frankly, it sucks.

Maybe, in a similar vain to Anna I should compose a timeline pf preferred vocations. That could take some forethought.

20 Questions

Huh. So I played 20 questions against the computer using a link from Esther’s blog. I was shocked when it guessed what I was thinking, obsidian, at the final question. Especially after it seemed to be going right off track.

Update: I beat the computer with ‘lightbulb filament’!