Emerging Africa - A safe place to talk about theology

Wanted: one good reason why this site should continue to exist?

nicpaton — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:03:38 +0000

Why does this site does not engender much enthusiam? Has it had its time, and we need to move onto another platform, or just get on with it in the real world?

Any comments (still) welcome...

Frank Viola's imaginings

Steve Hayes — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:36:36 +0000

Well, Frank Viola has been and gone. I understand he's an emerging church fundi, so did anyone go to hear him? Can anyone give a summary of what he said, and whether or not you found it useful?

Muzi Cindi: postmodern nigger in the woodpile.

nicpaton — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:34:01 +0000

I have just reviewed Muzi Cindi's book "Thinking about God, Talking about God".

God appeared to Muzi in 2007 with the news that "God does not exist". The result, as you might imagine, is going to be a little different to the normal epiphany. But, nonetheless, he still counts himself an (a-theist) Jesus following evangelical. Put Muzi in your pipe and smoke him...

The African Way post

Stray — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:42 +0000

Hey everyone,

Ok, this may seem like a shameless plug for my story published at The Times titled "The African Way" (in a way, it is), but the story was written out of the Amaharo conference and the discussions there on post-colonialism etc., so I thought it may be of interest to you guys.

Read it at The Times Live.

Christian piracy

Steve Hayes — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:11:02 +0000

Things seem to be very quet here, so how about stirring them up with a discussion on Christian piracy. Check out that series of posts and discuss them here?

Jesus in Suburbia

Fourie Rossouw — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:43:43 +0000

Last night I spoke about how our suburb is changing, but not our church. In the Afrikaans South-African story, churches became the last place of safety and comfort. Apart from our high-tech security that changed our streets into base camps and our houses into prisons, the church became that one place where everything must be familiar and predictable.

We do this with language and cultural theology.

The idea is (although we don’t admit it) that when outsiders stumble in, only those that look, think and talk like us will come again. The rest must keep on looking for a church with people of their kind.

Soul Khaya

Fourie Rossouw — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:17:14 +0000

In search of a spa as a birthday treat for my wife, I stumbled upon a little spa called The Soul Khaya. In the Zulu language Khaya means home.

In the book "The Irresistible Revolution that I am blogging about (http://doubtfuldiaries.blogspot.com)for the next few weeks, Shane Claiborne speaks of Christians forming hospitality houses as a new way of living in community.
Tonight our home became a hospitality house, or a Soul Khaya if you will. Strangers became new friends when a group of Jesus Followers from Mozambique joined us for a very simple but soulful dinner.

Religion taught me that church happens in a big building on a sunday, or when Christians pray and read the Bible together.

This site hacked

Steve Hayes — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:43:15 +0000

There's been nothing new here for more than a week, and I wonder if that is because all the links to the site seem to have been hacked by http://www.christianauction.com/.

The link from Amatomu has been hacked for two weeks or more, and now the link on my blog, via www.blogrolling.com, also seems to have been hacked.

The mybloglog link still works, but how long before it is hacked too?

Is that perhaps the reason that there has been no new content for some time -- because no one can find the site any more?

Born for Purpose, Created for Destiny

Annalisa — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:14:39 +0000

“The paradox of being created in God’s image is that we are
free to put our will above God’s will.”

“Decisions. We make them, Then they turn around and make us.
And sometimes they break us.”

Have you ever dreamt about your life or wondered about your existence? Have you ever questioned the path you have taken or thought about its direction? Is there an art, a skill, a gift to this thing we call life, is it left to fate, to chance or as some would say, to destiny? Sometimes I look at my life and wonder about the choices I have made, the person I have become, the people I am friends with, the journey I have chosen. I wonder if my existence is meant to be meaningful, to have some kind of significance or is this it?

It's all in the "L" of Word

Peter Veysie — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:21:00 +0000

I am encouraged always by the fact that we live in the beauty of a rhythm starting and ending with our Creator who has invited us into a space of living and dying with him - continual life. It is this powerful relationship that enables us to see a partnership that links us to LOGOS - WORD - CHRIST - and enables some of the life lessons to make sense. I am busy working through a study of what the early writers were actually saying when they said "In the beginning was the Word" and am fascinated by how cheeky this actually was, or rather how tongue in cheek it was. A substantial power had been given to the word - both spoken and written and then to have defined this as GOD was a mind bend for early theologians. It should be the same for us. How do we define Logos - Word ?