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can a postmodern englishman agree with a pentecostal nigerian?
at greenbelt this year one of the things i did in the cms venue was take part in a debate/conversation with yemi, a nigerian friend/colleague on the different sensibilities arising from out of african churches and postmodern/emerging. it was titled african certainty meets postmodern doubt. i enjoyed it. anyway there is now a recording of it on the cms web site...
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i always wondered how emergent things jived with the African petecostalism. i come out of a certainty based pentecostalism and was BURNED big time and run very far away. Maybe i will check this out.
Brian McLaren's work with Amahoro fascinates me. His take, i think, is on post-colonialism.
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Posted by: Existential Punk | January 12, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Thanks Jonny! I've now downloaded it. Glad that one was recorded. Sorry I didn't get to it but there was so much other good stuff on at the same time.
Posted by: David Derbyshire | January 12, 2009 at 08:41 PM
heard it this morning. nice.
Posted by: andrew | January 13, 2009 at 09:49 AM
well, I'm a pentecostal and my friend Liz (www.lizclutterbuck.blogspot.com) is an emergent cum liberal cum evangelical cum slightly weird Anglican 'english woman'. it's all about the mix.
By the way, I speak blindly as I haven't heard the recording.
Posted by: Abidemi Sanusi | January 14, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Cheers Jonny. Happy New Year. I've listened to your conversation travelling into work for the last couple of days. Fascinating. It brings back memories of conversations I had in Mid-08 in Zambia. Telling my story in that context was a very unnerving experience for the reason's you highlighted in the early part of your conversation - the contexts are so different, churchless faith etc are not readily understandable.
So thanks, really useful to revisit that conversation and to listen to the two of you reflecting on very similar issues, challenges and opportunities...
Hope the year ahead is a great one for you and the family.
Posted by: Paul Millar | January 15, 2009 at 06:51 PM
Ooops. Should have been "Paul Fromont" not "Paul Millar"
Posted by: Paul Fromont | January 15, 2009 at 06:52 PM