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jun04 index
This month... The church that is engaging today’s culture cannot avoid the effect technology is having on our shrinking world; especially when considering the growing impact of the internet. That’s why we’re providing a collection of writing this month discussing the relationship the Church has with the internet and other technologies. This month’s issue deals with an issue that is close to the heart of Next-Wave. We’ve always sought to provide a platform for young, developing voices as well as the wisdom of veteran church leaders too easily drowned out in the noise of new. Our little place in cyberspace has allowed us to do that just that. We hope to continue doing so as long as the Lord allows us. We encourage you to sign up and leave your thoughts and comments on the articles you read. Continue to submit your thoughts and ideas whether they are articles, reviews, interviews, short stories or poetry. Below is a list of the issues we hope to address in the next few months:
July - The work of the Holy Spirit + the emerging church September - Leadership + emerging churches October - the place of Scripture in the emerging church November - the value of diversity in the emerging church
As always, we hope that the words you read in this month’s edition will be thought provoking and informative. Keep coming back this month as we are now starting to release articles all month long. Thanks for visiting. by Brian Orme >> more
6/3/04; 11:55:34 AM Article: Social Technologies and the Church
by Daniel Miller Measured by the amount of money and media thrown at Friendster, Orkut, and their ilk, there must be something to this next generation of social software tools. The curious thing about these products is their ruggedly individualistic approach to community building. The initiators in this space have made a mistake common among technologists—that of seeing the software as a panacea instead of as a tool that empowers and enables what is already taking place. >> more 6/3/04; 11:46:54 AM Article: The Medium is the Worldview
by Rex Miller When Marshall McLuhan declared that the “medium is the message” few neither understood nor considered his implications. Avante garde artists understood – but so what. Advertisers understood but succumbed to mass-media’s addiction. Some universities understood but they’ve only produced more professors. The rest of us swim in the waters of mass-media and for the most part are completely unaware of its affect. >> more 6/3/04; 11:41:17 AM Article: Answers from The Other Side
For several months we will be offering these Answers from The Other Side - from practitioners in the emerging church scene. It's time to allow these folks to lay out some of the answers they've seen and developed on the other side of their ecclesiastical transition. There will be many voices and many different "answers." We hope this helps the navigation process... This month we will hear from Mike Bishop and Jason Evans. Good reading. >> more 6/3/04; 11:28:59 AM by Amy Knauer >> more
6/3/04; 11:25:51 AM Article: Gleanings from Pub Culture
by Rob McAlpine There were some questions asked of me during our breaks, wondering how you go about being a Christian witness in a band that basically plays songs that could be summed up as "drink and fight and drink and fight and drink and fight some more". >> more 6/3/04; 11:23:31 AM Interview: Richard Thomas and i-church
by John Wallis i-church is a new project of the Anglican Diocese of Oxford. They are trying to create a web based community of faith that wiil reach out to people who would otherwise not frequent a church in the traditional sense. They are using the technology of the Internet to reach out to a world that is fluent in its use. >> more 6/3/04; 11:20:32 AM Review: Afterlife and Hell.com
by Mike Morrell Okay, everyone. We have two sites this month. Neither are exactly "Christian" per se. Both are pretty visceral. First, I want you to check out Afterlife. As many of us are wondering what websites-as worship (as opposed to simply information) would look like, I think that photograhper Jonathan Clark has shown us some of the Web's nigh-limitless potential...and there are not even a lot of bells and whistles here. I won't say too much about this...I don't want to ruin it for you. Suffice it to say this site is beautiful and more than a little disquieting. Go to it when you have at least 30 minutes to spend, grab some herbal tea, and prepare to be engaged. Secondly, go to hell. Hell.com that is. Just do it. Play with it. You'll be glad you did. >> more 5/19/04; 11:41:33 AM Article: Where is Socrates?
by AD McCall In this respect, our culture, and the church, is quite definitely Greco-Roman. In fact, there is a word, in Attic Greek, which carries strong connotations of both convincing and deluding. Psuchagogeo means to lead or attract, beguile or delude. Primarily, it means to lead souls to hell. We carry this concept deep within us, even today. Awareness of the dark side of rhetoric is especially prevalent among Christians; who, to be faithful to the call of Christ, simply must turn off the dominant culture's insistent voice. >> more 5/19/04; 11:24:54 AM Article: An Experience Too Deep For Words
by Rich Vincent Just because the contemplative life is the best and highest stage of Christian experience does not mean that everyone is equipped to embark on the contemplative path. Those who consider contemplation should fulfill at least four requirements. >> more 5/19/04; 11:23:05 AM Print-friendly version of this page Mail this article
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