Editor’s note: With Mountainfilm in Telluride fast approaching – the Festival takes place over Memorial Weekend – the preservation of the earth and all things endangered, species, cultures and ideas, becomes an even more compelling notion. Mountainfilm guests don’t just pay lip service to the idea. They take action. In a series of posts, Pat…
Editor’s note: Pat Bailey, pastor of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church, continues with his exploration of Spirituality with Religion. While this installment is not exactly a traditional tribute to Mother’s Day, it is a tribute to the mother of us all: Mother Nature. His insistence on Her importance in a re-envisioned Christian theology is unrelenting. In…
Editor’s note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Church continues his weekly series, with findings based on his doctoral thesis. In this installment, Pat stresses the importance of Nature in the context of the new spirituality. In my doctoral dissertation I am claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its…
In my doctoral dissertation I claim the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission. I stress the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach to mission. My specific question for this part of the discussion is this: “Why is it expedient to…
Editor’s note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Church and Dr. John Sexton are kindred souls. Pat contends (in his PhD thesis) the need for the Christian church to re-imagine itself in the context of the modern world, including becoming more integrative and “earth-focused.” What could be more earth-focused and integrative than teaching “Baseball as…
Editor’s Note: Reverend Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church gives TIO readers a bird’s eye view of the ideas he is exploring in his PhD thesis. You can use Comments to express your point of view about the questions he poses at the end of his blog. In my doctoral dissertation I am claiming…
Editor’s note: the erudite, open-minded pastor of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church continues with his weekly series – related to his PhD thesis – on the nature of spirituality within the context of modern-day religious practices. I have been talking about the “spiritual revolution” as described by several scholars and authors and their consideration whether the…
Last week, I wrote about the “spiritual revolution” as described by religious scholars Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, philosopher Charles Taylor, and psychoanalyst David Tacey. I posed the question: Is the current turn toward subjectivity and inner experience is expressive of anything more than self-indulgent individualism? While Charles Taylor observes that one of the…
I have been talking about the “spiritual revolution” as described by religious scholars Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, philosopher Charles Taylor, and psychoanalyst David Tacey. The question raised in last Sunday’s post was: Is the current turn toward inner experience expressive of anything more than self-indulgent individualism? Heelas and Woodhead argue that the individualism that…
Editor’s note: Pat Bailey is Reverend of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church. This series reflects his ongoing research for his PhD thesis. I have been talking about the “spiritual revolution” as described by religious scholars Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead in “The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality” and philosopher Charles Taylor in…
