Today is the birthday of Jean Vanier, the founder of the L'Arche communities. If there is anyone who could be called a prophet of Slow Church, it is Vanier... Here is an excellent seven-part interview with Vanier (the quality of what Vanier says is excellent, the quality of the video and audio, less so... Sometimes you may need to turn up the volume to catch what the soft-spoken Vanier is saying...) I recommend starting with this video (Part 7): [ Part 1 - Can Aristotle be a Guide for Life? ] [ Part 2 - The Heart and the Mind ] [ Part 3 - Celebrating Life ] [ … [Read more...]
Mr. Rogers and the Garden of Your Mind
June 22, 2012 By 3 Comments
Longtime readers of this blog may recall the fondness and respect Chris and I have for Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister and educator from Pittsburgh who invited us all to be part of his TV neighborhood. In a recent Q essay on the "Ten Most Significant Cultural Trends of the Last Decade," Andy Crouch listed Place at #2, writing, "This quest for local, embodied, physical presence may well be driven by the omnipresence of the virtual and a dawning awareness of the thinness of disembodied life." It is fun to speculate - and speculation is all it can ever be - that Mister Rogers' … [Read more...]
Daily Slow Church Advent Reflections.
November 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Starting on Monday (Nov. 28), Chris Smith will be coordinating a daily series of reflections here on the daily lectionary texts throughout the season of Advent. Advent is too often a season when the pace of life speeds up instead of slowing down. Through these Advent reflections, we hope to challenge ourselves to slow down, be attentive and remember all the gifts of life that surround us daily. To be sure you don’t miss these reflections, connect with the Slow Church blog on Facebook, Twitter or by entering your email address over on the righthand sidebar. … [Read more...]
Video: Walter Brueggemann – “Slow Wisdom as a Sub-Version of Reality”
November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Walter Brueggemann is one of the first theologians that I think of when I think of Slow Church, yet I had never heard him explicitly use the language of Slow, until I saw this video from Baylor University (It's 67 minutes long, but well worth it!) … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Becoming the Liturgy – Ian Morgan Cron on the Slow Work of God.
October 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
This is a lovely clip from The Work of the People of Ian Morgan Cron talking about the Slow work of God... (HT: Scott Emery) CLICK HERE for another related and excellent clip from Cron, on the bread and the wine... … [Read more...]
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