I'm down in London on Thursday for the Mind Body Spirit fair with Jonny, Moot et al. I've been at the Manchester fair for the past three three years with Sanctus1 - here's something that I've written about it.
You meet some fascinating people who are seriously exploring spirituality - including one person a few years ago who was a church warden and a practicing wiccan...One thing that i find frustrating is when Christians judge New Age spirituality from moral high ground as shallow and consumeristic, when really a lot of Christianity in the UK could easily be perceived in this way too. The New Age Movement has brought about profound changes in the way that we view ourselves as human, the way we view the environment and the level of connectivity between the mind, body and soul. This cannot be dismissed as shallow and consumeristic, sure, there are shallow elements but this is true of all religions. The New Age movement is an authentic expression of faith in post-modernity.
Anyway, have a look at the site: dekhomai. I think that Jonny should be a marketing guru...
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Nice to see you in action. You are experiencing now in England what we went through sixteen years ago with MBS Festivals in Australia.
We wrote about modelling contextual ministry in festivals in Shooting for the Stars (Albatross/Lion 1993), Sacred Quest (Albatross/Lion 1995) and Jesus and the gods of the New Age (Lion 2001); and modelled how to find the "unknown god" in the Tarot in Beyond Prediction (Lion 2001; co-authors John Drane and Ross Clifford). I have also advanced the reflections in two chapters on new age and reachings wiccans in Hexham, Rost & Morehead (eds) Encountering New Religious Movements (Kregel 2004); and again in the Lausanne Forum Paper of 2004 "Religious and Non-Religious Spirituality in the Western World".
You guys might like to join our on-line forum Thinplaces where we've been discussing alternative spiritualities and missions for several years now.
Cheers
Posted by: philjohnson | May 25, 2006 at 10:23 AM