Greenbelt was great. The highlights were meeting up with Stuart, Ikon's God Delusion and the panel discussion on interfaith relationships. Stuart and I talked all things baptist. Ikon's 'service' is a great example of challenging, thought-provoking mixture of theology and worship through theo-drama. I think they were trying to say that in getting rid of God we discover God, when we let go of the neat packages of faith (there was an opportunity to to re-write or re-work the Apostles creed), we find God. As Doug Gay remarked in his talk, where he differs with Ikon and Pete Rollins, is that he wants (as Barth taught) to hold on to Jesus as the revelation of God, with which I would agree, and I'm not sure Pete and Ikon do. Ikon are into deconstruction and playing with the neat packages of faith, where these leaves theology I'm not sure, but I applaud what they're doing. The panel discussion was really interesting and I'll blog separately on that. You can get copies of ant of the talks on mp3, cd or tape here.
Fri - Ched Myers - ambassdors of reconciliation
Marc Ellis - towards a Jewish theology of liberation
Sat - Doug Gay -unpacking the emerging church project
Maggi Dawn - angels and announcements
met up with Stuart Blythe
John Bell - the vocation to protest
John Smith - pop McWorship versus the real thing
Ikon - The God Delusion
Sun - John Smith - the greatest environmentalists in history
David Ford & Micheal O'Siadhail - shaping memory seeking vision: scripture and poetry
Can we coexist? panel with David Ford, Mona Siddiqui, Marc Ellis and Keith Ward
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