Preparing for Sunday school lesson on contemporary events and responses in faith. Current event: the environment. Reading through Peter Illyn's article on The Environment in The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World, edited by Heather Zydek. It is an outstanding field manual for beginning Christian activists who seek to live out of their faith in everyday life. If anyone has other compelling articles on ecology/environment and theology/faith, please pass along.
re: Anne Lamott's "Mess" and John Wesley's "Perfection"
here is 6 days growth. my son said this morning, "your beard is pinching me!" i have received some comments regarding my last post which included an excerpt from Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird . The comments centered around Lamott's observations re: perfectionism being the voice of the oppressor, the Wesleyan theological term "Christian Perfection", and the United Methodist understanding that we are moving on to "perfection." i don't think that by sharing Lamott's observations i have called Wesley's theology into question or compromised my own understanding of "Christian Perfection." as i understand Wesley, his move towards "perfection", or the acquisition of "sanctification" (though Wesley seems to believe that this could be a fleeting acquisition at best) is a process or journey made by one through grace alone and that one who achieves "perfection" is not in the state permanently and therefore is...
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I have a Google alert set for blog mentions of Peter Illyn.
I'd very much like to read the article you refer to...but it doesn't Google and you didn't provide a link.
Can you help me?
The Peter Illyn article I referred to is in The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World, edited by Heather Zydek from RelevantBooks, 2006(c).