Saturday, July 28, 2007

New Monasticism

Here is Shane Claiborne of this movement called The New Monastics. It is on NPR's Speaking of Faith.

Interesting...

Here is their website. There is so much there that J and I have talked about, like real community, service and so many things we that seem lost in the church we are in today.

I will be looking more at this! Eyebrow raised........

I love the fact that he talks about community in a real way, food in a real way, conservation and making good decisions about consumption...

He talks about people who are burnt and wrung out on church as it has been (but still believe there is God), he talks about people who think they are doing good because they buy organic or recycle because people want so much to do the right thing (even if that organic thing was flown in from Chile) and it goes for the same people who won't listen to Metallica because they think it will surely ally them with the devil...

He talks about how some christians (the leader of a major Evangelic organization recently got in trouble because he bucked this particular dogma) believe the environment is really a non-issue, and what really needs to be controlled are those homosexuals and abortion. He talks about going overboard with this patriotism in the church, as if it belongs there. He even talks about the Amish.

He talks about the Martin Luther King/Mohandas Gandhi response to violence and "the scandalous love" required in the way of nonviolence. And burnout...

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