{"id":4029,"date":"2008-10-03T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:38:07","slug":"the-church-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-church-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another great tidbit from Tall Skinny Kiwi<\/strong><\/a> & Phyllis Tickle<\/strong> (who by the way will be at The Great Emergence Conference<\/a> in Dec.). The quote was featured in Tall Skinny Kiwi’s talk at GodBlogCon<\/a> and comes from Tickle’s latest book The Great Emergence<\/em> (need to get me a copy of that!)<\/p>\n

…the Church, capital C — in not really a thing so much as it is a network in exactly the same way that the Internet or the World Wide Web, or for that matter gene regularity or metabolic networks are not “things” or “entities.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love that! It goes right along with the ideas\/thoughts that I have running through my mind right now in preparation for “speaking” at encounter<\/a> on Oct 12. We’ll see where it all leads me\/us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another great tidbit from Tall Skinny Kiwi & Phyllis Tickle (who by the way will be at The Great Emergence Conference in Dec.). The quote was featured in Tall Skinny Kiwi’s talk at GodBlogCon and comes from Tickle’s latest book The Great Emergence (need to get me a copy of that!) …the Church, capital … Continue reading The Church is…<\/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":[560,18,19,8],"tags":[219,4659,1513],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","category-reflections","category-verse-quote-of-the-day","tag-church","tag-community","tag-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-12Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}