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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Syncretism synchronised blog

This is from Phil Wyman, who organised a synchronised blog.

Today a synchronized blog has been arranged. There are a few of us blogging on the same subject from different perspectives. So, here's the subject: Syncretism in the Western Church Today.

Okay some of you may be saying, "What the heck does that mean?" So here 's a brief dictionary answer to help you understand what we are talking about:

"The combining or merging and synthesizing of religions or religious beliefs, practices, and philosophies. This results in new or hybrid religions that are composed of diverse elements of the religions from which they were derived."

So these blogs are challenging Western Christianity, and suggesting that it might have some form of competing philosophy which we have adopted from our culture. This makes it different than what Jesus might have intended. Ready for some challenging thoughts?

Here's where the blogs are:

Sally Coleman - http://sallysjourney.typepad.com/ - Subject: Time out from Tinsel
Phil Wyman - http://squarenomore.blogspot.com/ - Subject: Syncretism in the Evangelical Church: The Consumerism of the Altar Call and the Sinner's Prayer
John Smulo - http://www.johnsmulo.com/
John Morehead - http://johnwmorehead.blogspot.com/
Matt Stone - http://mattstone.blogs.com/ - Subject: Family Values
Billy Calderwood - http://www.billycalderwood.com
Mike Crockett - http://mikeofearthsea.blogspot.com/ - Subject: Church and Culture: a double-edged sword
Carl Nystedt - http://nug-personal-bubble.blogspot.com - Subject: Syncretism: pros and cons
Steve Hayes - http://www.geocities.com/missionalia/bethesda.htm - Subject: Sundkler deconstructed: Bethesda AICs and syncretism
Mike Bursell- http://www.p2ptrust.org - Syncretism a positive slant

Have fun, and see if you think about church the same from here on out. This is brought to you by people who want more out of church, and are on a journey to get there.