Last year while I was running an errand, I drove by a church on 20th Street and noticed that it was surrounded by chain link fence in all directions. The outside of the church was a mess and I assumed that they were renovating as the outside of the building needed repair. Weeks later I [...]
Steve Collins
The Church in an Age of Scarcity
A couple of weeks ago Jason Evans started to post about the recession and the church which started me thinking as I was reading Howard Kunstler’s excellent book, The Long Emergency (Wikipedia summary – Full text available on at Google Books) for about the third time. If you haven’t read it, you need to. I [...]
small ritual: why am i scared of revival?
Steve Collins gets it right. how come ‘revival’ never means good coffee and free wifi, everywhere? really challenging and confrontational art? the development of cheap sustainable technology? an end to greed and overwork? a good wage for the [formerly] poor? what would a holy, as opposed to religious, society look like?
Imagine
This is from Steve Collins via Bill Imagine the unlocking of the doors.Imagine the re-emergence of church interiors as public spaces in the city.Imagine if the worship installations could stay up all the time.Imagine your local church building as an open-doored hangout. Imagine sofas, visuals, newspapers, books, food, drink. Imagine a church with good coffee. [...]
