Undoing Individualism: Learning from Elizabeth Oldfield
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Undoing Individualism: Learning from Elizabeth Oldfield
The innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the op... See more
Casper ter Kuile • How we gather
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Warren’s building, and his own style, represented an openness, even a partnership, in helping individuals find their own purpose by allowing Jesus to help each person flourish and overcome the malaise that the age of authenticity seemed to leave in the wake of its individualized freedom. Yet Warren did not do this by speaking against individualized
... See moreAndrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Murdoch believed that one of the core projects that each of us needs to undertake is to “unself”. “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”
For Murdoch, there is no backstage self. As long as we
New Philosopher, Sense of Self, Matthew Beard
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Iris Murdoch
Let’s have discovering and nurturing our true selves become our special interest — and I promise you, together we will see a better world be revealed in our lifetime.
D.L. Mayfield • My (Autistic) Grand Unified Theory of How We Got Here
Ministry creates an ontological event of sharing; it is ministry that brings union to hypostasis.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Inversion is a common theme in Christianity (‘the meek shall inherit the earth’) and has also prompted much radical innovation more recently. What if farmers became bankers (as happened with the microcredit provided by Grameen Bank); patients became doctors; or social care were provided by people who had themselves been recipients of care? What if
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Religion’s role in society is shifting. How might a conversation between the ancient and the emergent transform the next decade?
Meera Clark • A Religious Realignment
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“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.
Real Life • Silent Partner
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