http://allelon.org A movement of missional leaders. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The failure of a dominant narrative & the need for a new social imaginary I was recently introduced to a magazine called Prospect by an Anglo-Irish friend, Colin Greene. It offers a regular series of cultural and political essays that cover current affairs, the arts, economics and culture. The ... http://allelon.org/2009/529 I was listening the other day to Canadian national radio (CBC). Its Tapestry program interviewed Anne Rice, author of The Vampire Chronicles (Interview with a Vampire was turned into a movie). After many years as an atheist, she recently returned to her Catholic faith. (The Tapestry podcast ... http://allelon.org/2008/417 Ever get tired of trite phrases? There are few that get me going. "Cutting edge" is one, "movement" another. In churchland we’ve lots of (in the spirit of Foucault) power words signaling who's in and who's out; who's de guerre (or flavor of the month) ... http://allelon.org/2008/195 The Blind Leading the Blind [Karl] Polanyi’s thesis is that there can be no self-regulating market. The functional ideology behind the last quarter century of economic life in the West has been, of course, the orthodox conviction that the self-regulating market is the form of economic life whose laws, if left ... http://allelon.org/2008/156 The concept is simple; to employ art to tell the Christmas story. Seek tactile interaction – make a star out of wire, mark your home town on a world map, record the one thing you would take with you on a refugee journey – as a way of inviting ... http://allelon.org/2008/1 There’s been a dis-ease in the back of my mind for a while about the directions of the missional conversation in North America. I’ve written about one: it’s too ecclesiocentric. Most of what I read with missional in its title is about the church and making the church ... http://allelon.org/2008/203