Deep Church - a new blogging adventure!

Very excited about a new blogging adventure I am helping Jason Clark organise... it is a blog dedicated to the deep church conversation and you should be able to access it at http://deepchurch.wordpress.com/  or http://www.deepchurch.org.uk .

We hope to have a number of leading practitioners, academics andmost importantly church goers contributing to the conversation, from different traditions, countries and backgrounds.

If you haven't yet got your hands on the book, Remembering our future - explorations in deep church then let me heartedly recomend it to you.  I hope to draw on chapter 2 which is titled, ‘Beyond the Emerging Church’ by Luke Bretherton for parts 2 and 3 of my Institutional Church -RIP posts [see part 1 here].

Comments

[Lyn]

Hey Paul, the blog looks interesting. I'll add it to my rss and keep an eye on it. In regards to the book - is it heavy reading?

[fernando]

I'll be reading the new blog with interest.

The book is on my watchlist, but I've yet to read a compelling reivew, or even see a list of contributors, so I have't bought it yet.

[Paul]

Thanks Lyn - as much as I've read so far - and i've only got to the fabled chapter 2, it is not heavy reading - altho that is of course a term that will mean different things :)

It is written as each chapter by a different author so if you do get too bogged down you can skip on to something that looks more interesting...

I'm enjoying it so far, and chapter 2 for us in the EC conversation looks a doozy!

[Paul]

Hi Fernando

the book has got some good reviews on the back from:
-Tom Sine
-Paul Bradshaw [proff Liturgy, Uni of Notre Dame
-Brian McLaren
-Andrew Jones [TSK]

Contributers to the book are:

Professor Andrew Walker -Kings College

Dr Luke Bretherton - Kings

Andrew Rogers - researching biblical hermeneutics in UK evangelicalism for his phd

Revd Dr`Ben Quash, Dean and fellow of peterhouse cambridge

Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth, principal, Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambs

Dr Ian Stackhouse, Pastoral leader of the Milmead Centre, home of Guilford Baptist church.

Professor Alan Kreider, Associate Professor of church history and mission, Assoc Memonnite Bibilical Seminary, Indiana

Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist Minister and Director of the Guy Chester Centre, London.

[fernando]

Hey, thanks for that. The contributors look interesting - I might just dive into this one.

As for the blurbs on the book cover - I decided more than a decade ago to always ignore those. Having seen the way the system works, it seems best to treat them with suspicison - always.

But, serious, independant reviews are always welcome!!!

[Paul]

when i've finished it i'll write a review :)