The Monastic Fling

So, you want something more than trendy Christianity

This is a network of people who have become frustrated with American-Christianity or simply feel a lack of connection with God, period. The long and tried Tradition of monastic (monks and nuns) Christian spirituality is deep and wide. It provides a pattern and means for all of us to discover deep spiritual reflection, quite contemplation, and connection with God that goes beyond the trendy and banal.

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Misunderstanding

I was watching a video from the Network in the U.S. meeting in Texas this week. The “Network of Anglican Parishes and Dioceses," otherwise known as the "Anglican Communion Network" is the reactionary group of people who oppose the direction the Episcopal Church has been heading

over the past 30…

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Posted by Bob Griffith on August 1, 2007 at 10:00am

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Another example of a generational sea change...

I've been saying for the last 10 years or so that there is a generational sea change being realized in North America, particularly in the U.S. To be honest, I'm less familiar with what is going on in Canada, but I suspect something similar.







I've said over and over again that the tail end of Generation X, Gen Y, and whatever is next, are of a different temperament when it comes to what resonates with them within the whole Christian melee and spirituality more generally. The… Continue

Posted by Bob Griffith on April 27, 2007 at 10:27am

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Emergent and Contextualization

The following comes from regular e-mail updates I get from Emergent Village (the website for the ongoing Emergent Church conversation). Brian McLeran posted about his experiences this past year traveling all over the world and listening to many different and other voices.



From Brian McLaren:



"I have become convinced of two things in this travel. First, we Christians in the West or North (and…
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Posted by Bob Griffith on April 27, 2007 at 10:21am

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The Threefold Rule

From a review of the Anglican Brevery, by Addison H. Hart in Touchstone.

" My own sincere belief in the importance of the Daily Office was influenced by, among others, the late Anglican spiritual writer, Martin Thornton, whose books (in particular, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation; Christian Proficiency; and English Spirituality) made a convincing case that the classical shape of a…
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Posted by Bob Griffith on April 18, 2007 at 2:08pm

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