Church/Money/Future: Exploring Ecclesial Sustainability
Chris Marshall, a Cincinnati-based professor and “house churcher,” inadvertently sparked an Internet meme this week on the subject of sustainability and the church with his post “This hurts.”
Mark Van Steenwyk posted a mid-meme around-the-room entitled “Starving Ecclesial Artists Unite!” where he added his own thoughts on the subject.
But the meme has continued, and Aaron Klinefelter, who posted his own thoughts on the subject, has now created a list on del.icio.us under the tag “churchmoneyfuture” to track the discussion.
The conversation has (as of this posting) gone from high gas prices and the foreclosure crisis to the impact on seminaries and theological education to the need for re-training for missional work to empire and “the global capitalistic machine” to the need for pioneering ecclesial artists to support each other to the rise of “post-congregationalism” to the implications for Catholic and Orthodox churches to the benefits of being “bi-occupational.”
These are just a few of the points of discussion, and I’m sure there’ll be more. Keep checking Aaron’s del.icio.us page for updates and/or post some links here in the comments if you write something or come across something you’d like to add to the discussion.
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