Steve Taylor writes about “postmodern monasteries”, here’s a quote:
“A postmodern monastery – Combining authentic, low-budget group creativity with the task of preserving technical knowledge within the rhythms of prayer in order to cross the digital divide and catalyse open source spirituality”
Here’s the link: read it.
This is fodder for our ongoing conversation about a Core within VC, a Religious Order for this time, this place, our community.
A reflection:
Whatever this thing is that I keep talking about, it is NOT a regressive step. It is not “freeze-frame” faith or ecclesiology – we are NOT trying to conserve, preserve, or (even) re-serve (in the traditionalism fashion – “if we could just get back to the way it was in _____”).
This is FORWARD motion.
