Just finished watching “Trouble in Amish Paradise” a BBC2 documentary about two families on the edge of the Amish religious establishment. An interesting insight into hermeneutics, culture, instituitionalism and all that jazz – Foucault could have a field day. (apologies for agricultural pun..)
Well worth a watch (available on iplayer for only two more days..)
From the [...]
In August this year, Greenbelt Festival hosted a conversation for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of doing something like Greenbelt in Scotland. So a second meeting took place in Perth in November to take things a step further.
So ‘The PROJECT‘ was born… an interim process of small, viral, organic events during 2009 & 2010, [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 in scribbling, theology
Following on from a little bit of McLuhan a while ago..
that week someone who i didn’t really know very well asked to meet me for coffee to chat. they knew nothing of the experience i was having. but one of the things they said has stuck with me since -
you don’t fit and that’s your [...]
I was sitting drinking Rivella (carbonated diluted milk serum.. tastier than it sounds!) on our wee balcony (the sun appeared this weekend!) trying to scribble down a thought i had.. and then read this, which captures the same idea except in a different field of thought entirely..
Theology is always a network; more precisely it is [...]
