{"id":3944,"date":"2008-08-19T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:00:02","slug":"re-church-basement-roadshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-church-basement-roadshow\/","title":{"rendered":"re: Church Basement Roadshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Palmer<\/strong> has a good review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchbasementroadshow.com\">Church Basement Roadshow<\/a> in the latest edition of <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.the-next-wave-ezine.info\/issue116\/index.cfm?id=39&amp;ref=ARTICLES_FEATURED%20ARTICLE%3A%20EVENTS_549\">Next-Wave<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>From Jim&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<p>Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Mark Scandrette led the event, which combined an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old time gospel revival\u00e2\u20ac\u009d setting with a different kind of message that invited people to imagine a Christianity that was more anchored in the life and message of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>From what i heard and saw last night, a person who may be drawn to this expression of Christianity would be a person who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>feels like they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit or benefit by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traditional\/cultural\u00e2\u20ac\u009d forms, practices, and expressions of Christianity, and have an aversion to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one size fits all\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mindset.<\/li>\n<li>can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t relate to a mental\/heady Christianity but are prone to the idea of a new way of life based on the values of Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t thrive in the typical systems and infrastructures of organized church.<\/li>\n<li>feels marginalized in the typical Christian class system of professionals (pastors, church staff) and amateurs (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dlay\u00e2\u20ac\u009d people), and desire to be empowered.<\/li>\n<li>desires relationships of love and acceptance, where hard questions can be asked and explored without fear of rejection.<\/li>\n<li>thrives in the freedom of creative expression, and imagines Jesus more as a revolutionary who lives on the street in solidarity with marginal peoples, as opposed to a politician wielding power from an air-conditioned high-rise office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchbasementroadshow.com\">Church Basement Roadshow<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/faith\/soul-graffiti-experiments-in-truth\/\">SSL :: soul graffiti &#8211; experiments in truth<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/video\/church-basement-roadshow\/\">SSL :: church basement roadshow (video of the event)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Palmer has a good review of the Church Basement Roadshow in the latest edition of Next-Wave. From Jim&#8217;s article: Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Mark Scandrette led the event, which combined an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old time gospel revival\u00e2\u20ac\u009d setting with a different kind of message that invited people to imagine a Christianity that was more anchored &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-church-basement-roadshow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">re: Church Basement Roadshow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,18],"tags":[1384,1287,1409,900],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-faith","tag-church-basement-roadshow","tag-doug-pagitt","tag-mark-scandretti","tag-tony-jones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-11C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}