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Emerging Down Under

Two interesting book items from “down under” this week:

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Duncan Macleod at Postkiwi.com (from New Zealand, now living in Australia) has an excellent review of Doug Pagitt’s forthcoming book A Christianity Worth Believing (due out June 2): “Doug takes us on a journey with him as he reimagines what Christianity might be about. He introduces us to contextualisation through the Celtic adoption of the wild goose when talking about the Holy Spirit (rather than the traditional dove). He traces the modern obsession with uniformity back to the Greco-Roman adoption of Christianity in the time of Constantine. Today, he says, we’re still interpreting the story of Jesus through the lenses developed for a world dominated by Greek dualism and gods that needed to be appeased. …

The Mark Grace Web Site
Profiles the career of baseball superstar Mark Grace through photos, quotes, statistics, articles and story from fans. … BaseballCardStars.com sells thousands of …

“As much as Doug’s book is about belief, I get the sense that he’s presenting us with a Christianity worth living and worth sharing.”

AusJenny alerted me to Tony Campolo’s latest Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.

Mark Grace Stats and Graphs - Arizona Diamondbacks FanGraphs
Get updated historical baseball stats and graphs for Mark Grace of the Arizona Diamondbacks from Fan Graphs

Related: These aren’t from this week, but here’s a few more items of interest

a new book came out recently entitled emerging downunder by ray simpson and brent lyons lee (atf press), which explores “worldwide conversations about emerging church’ and new monasticism’ and applied it to a downunder’ context.” the foreword by tim costello and the introduction are at one’s disposal as a pdf download. according to amazon, the book won’t be out in the u.s. until september. (ht: matt stone)

Nick Fiedler is a USAmerican living in Brisbane, Australia, and he wrote recently about “What Can Emerging Communities Learn from Abroad?”

Mark Grace - Bats - Baseball - New York Times Blog
Reporters for The New York Times report from the Mets and Yankees spring training camps. … The Times’ seat in the Yankee Stadium press box is located right next to the visiting …

MySpace.com - mark grace; - 16 - Male - UK - www.myspace.com/mark …
MySpace profile for mark grace; with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more

Mark Grace Photo Album - Diamondbacks
Batting practice taken the day before the 2002 NLDS matchup between Arizona and St. Louis.

In response to Tony Jones’ post on “emerging/Emergent,” emergent kiwi Steve Taylor offers his response, as well as three interesting constructive ideas (see the comments section). Anyone willing/able to take on the EmergentTrainManifesto idea? The domain names are available. Which reminds me of Thomas Knoll’s “Emerging Stories” project, which (as of 5/9/20 still needs four more contributors …

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