10. Care for the plot of God’s earth given to us along with support of our local economics. The first part of this ‘mark’ is, I guess, one that would only be making an appearance in lists like this very recently. Gradually, more and more Christian communities are discovering the important of stewardship of the … More 12 Marks of New Monasticism: 10-12
The next three: 7. Nurturing common life among members of intentional community. Community happens either intentionally or unintentionally where people are. We’re relational beings, so community is gonna happen. However, you can have static community (read OAPs in a rest home) or an active community (an Army, a football team etc). What happens in active … More 12 Marks of New Monasticism: 7-9
Straight into ‘mark’ number 4:- 4. Lament for racial divisions within the church and our communities combined with the active pursuit of a just reconciliation. These set of 12 marks have their context in the US, that melting pot of nationalities and races. I don’t claim to be up on the scene over there, but … More 12 Marks of New Monasticism: 4-6
I mentioned at the end of the last post the 12 Marks of New Monasticism. Now, let me start by saying that one of the reasons this thing fires me up is because I think that Primive Salvationism had the whole New Monastic thing going on long before Bonhoeffer coined the phrase and before people … More 12 Marks of New Monasticism: 1-3
Funny, I was watching Ugly Betty last night. I don’t know if you watch it, but basically one of Betty’s ex-boyfriends confronts her about the fact that she’s working in a fashion mag when she wanted to be a serious journalist. She’d forgotten her vision. Like I said, the Army stuff is difficult mainly because … More Looking to the years to come
I was messing around with one of those random facebook applications earlier. The one where it shows you your year worth of status updates and puts it into a pretty collage thingy. You ever wish you just didn’t do something? The status updates around the time of our leaving officership are so difficult. The conversations, … More Reflection on the year that was
I need to confess that my passion for blogging has waned somewhat of late. Previously, a large part of my purpose in blogging was simply to add a voice to the Salvation Army blog scene with the dear hope of re-kindling something of a passion somewhere. I guess to one degree or the next it … More Stepping Down
Welcome to Kingdom Conspiracy! I hope you’ll join the ride here and be inspired, challenged, maybe educated a wee bit and most of all encouraged in your Jesus following. I hope as time goes on, through conversation and interaction, we’ll become co-conspirators to lift up the name of Jesus and his kingdom in this new … More Welcome to Kingdom Conspiracy
As soldiers we cut a pretty big covenant (read it here). Covenant is becoming pretty big these days in the wider church…there are neo-monastic missional orders springing up all over the place. For example, the Order of the Mustard Seed originally began by the great Moravian prayer warrior, Count Zinzendorff and more recently revived through … More Articles of War
In the times we are in, there has been much that has demoted evangelism to the bottom of the pile. Many people are reluctant to share faith because of the culture of the society we’re in, such as the culture I described yesterday. Some thing that because the church isn’t a norm in society, because … More Evangelism is not a dirty word
Andrew S M Clark 