Categories: uncategorized
Date: 30 August 2002 13:04:00
warming up to the idea of using this to do some thinking about the faith and all who sail in her. greenbelt was lovely. things are good for me at the moment, i'm doing things i love and well on the way to doing things i've always wanted to do.
i've always wanted to write something good about church. the plan is to get my theology head to the place where it asks the right questions over the next couple of years (by doing the first year of a ba in theology by distance learning, then by going and doing the second year at LBC), then to shape that thinking into a shit-hot MPhil about the structure and culture and concepts and possiblities and creativity and words and silence and etc about church.
whywhywhy. is writing/research self-indulgent? am i just going for this because I Want to Know? have i got anything to say? probably... will it be useful? i hope so, but to whom, and why...
my church is a good springboard for such thinkings. i am happy with the community. in my structure anarchist moments (i have many) i used to harshly state that if a church would fall apart because it didn't meet on sundays then it deserves to fall apart. i'm less harsh but still as fair now; those principles still apply. what would it look like if we didn't? well, it's been around 30 years and there are probably about 80 people show up on a sunday. we do kind of make it up as we go along, but i get (itchyuncomfydisjointedthere'snowordforit) with sunday mornings, because we are too lazy and self-satisfied half the time to bother to be creative about what we do despite the wealth of writers artists musicians thinkers and general hellraisers in our midst. we are in the unusual position of being able to do whatever the heck we like with our sundays, so we just do what we've always done (this is not quite true, but it nearly is).
this needs more and less. i can't be arsed to edit or embellish.