In part 1 I gave a thumb sketch of my own movement in terms of understanding my relation to the past. This reflection was prompted by two things: One was following a link from the Anglobapitst to Jonathan Stegals blog and reading his reflection on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall He was six when the Berlin wall fell, and 9/11 was the moment of his conscientization. I was struck how the two events reverberate in him and myself differently. The other was President Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Merkel of Germany jointly laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France The article points out that both Merkel and Sarkozy were born after WWII stating that they did not have the emotional animosity of the generations before. The article went on [...]

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Well I have been getting a great deal of comment spam on this blog for the past few months so I am reinstating certain measures to prevent this. From now on to comment you’ll need to prove you are a human by typing in the security word. If you wish to comment on a post that is more than 2 weeks old (much of the spam has been on older posts.) your comment will have to be first approved by me before it is posted.
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Time and history seems to be that which isolates us and alienates us from those who have come before us, or at least this continues to be the continueing concensus among all this talk about the Future of Christianity and this Great Emergence thing we apparently have found ourselves in the midst. I get it, at one time I too felt that those who came before couldn’t understand what I am thinking and what my generation were experiencing. The Boomers and my parents of the Baby Bust generation couldn’t understand. I didn’t even attempt to think about my Grandparents or anyone before them. Ironically I suppose I have always been fascinated by history and between thinking I’d be an engineer and finding a call to the pastorate I thought of becoming an historian. However, history was that very distant past that somehow related to my [...]

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