may-june 2002, next-wave magazine

Buffy the Backside Slayer
by Andrew Jones


"Me? Well, I am a recovering fundamentalist
and my spiritual walk, for most of my journey, has been stuck in my head. In many ways I am just catching up to a holistic way of loving God with my mind and heart and soul and body.
"

Search Party 2002
by
Alan Creech

"OK, I'm back home after 4 days of searching. I think I did some finding as well."

The Failure of Gen-X
by
Greg Quiring

"To my friend, the idea that I could actually be helped in developing my own leadership to X’ers from a Boomer (gasp!) just didn’t fit his grid."

The Church as Subversive Community
by Mike Bishop

"The Subversive Community's mission is not to bring the kingdom of God from without; it is to release the kingdom of God from within."

The Church-Internet (dis)connection
by
Andrew Careaga

"Instead of debating among ourselves whether authentic community can exist over the Net, why don't we go out into all the world of cyberspace and be part of the community that does indeed exist on the Net?"

The Church at Matthew's House
by
Jason Evans

"I was tired of the church, as I knew it. It was an event, a building, a program…I wanted to be the church; I wanted my “un-churched” friends to be the church, not become churched."

Voting on a "Traditional" Pastor
by
Eutychus Bailey

This was written on June 15, 2042 by Eutychus Bailey, author and former North American pastor. Because of amazingly quick internet access and the exponential growth of microchip and micro-processing speeds, Next-Wave is now able to publish this column forty years before it was actually written.

 

 

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