emergent church
Advent songs of longing
Is it poor form to be sad that Advent is drawing to a close? Somehow the more maudlin honesty about longing, with the cooler air (though Atlanta has been uncharacteristically warm this December) and the bare trees invites me to a place of peace and deep beauty more than any other of the year. Not to be [...]
structure verses interaction, is this a fair dichotomy?
For year I’ve been having conversations with friend, blogging-preacher-mom MaryAnn McKibben Dana, about worship. We were in seminary together and led many an alternative approach to preaching and liturgy. But now she is serving in a traditional context. Recently I asked her to hit me up with a question or two for this blog. She writes: My [...]
Clayfire… failed pot?
So, what is Clayfire, and why would anyone care if its gone (here’s the closing announcement) ? Their tagline, “reshaping worship together” sums up what I think they/we were after. But they also needed to figure out how the reshapers or users of “pre-shaped” worship were going to access the designs… and in the world of [...]
