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"Next week (June 23-26), the bygone staple of the tent revival will be reincarnated on a bucolic North Carolina farm as The Wild Goose Festival. Nearly 10 years in the making, the festival is an attempt to re-imagine Christianity for the 21st century under a bigger, wider more inclusive tent. .... Festival planners are a diverse bunch. They include more traditional evangelicals alongside emergent church leaders, neo-monastics and progressive Christians. Organizers want to distance themselves from the politicized versions of Christianity, and re-engage in social justice work -- particularly prison reform, a topic of some of the sessions. .... Although there are several other annual U.S.-based Christian musi festivals -- Creation, Cornerstone, Fishnet, to name a few -- Wild Goose is pitching bigger theological stakes. Franciscan friar Richard Rohr will lead a workshop; as will "recovering evangelical" writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer. .... The festival's most impressive feat may be that all the speakers and performers have waived their fees, essentially appearing for free." If Schaeffer is attending, then I might just pop in for a look. |
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 03:37:32 PM » |
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"Next week (June 23-26), the bygone staple of the tent revival will be reincarnated on a bucolic North Carolina farm as The Wild Goose Festival. Nearly 10 years in the making, the festival is an attempt to re-imagine Christianity for the 21st century under a bigger, wider more inclusive tent. .... Festival planners are a diverse bunch. They include more traditional evangelicals alongside emergent church leaders, neo-monastics and progressive Christians. Organizers want to distance themselves from the politicized versions of Christianity, and re-engage in social justice work -- particularly prison reform, a topic of some of the sessions. .... Although there are several other annual U.S.-based Christian musi festivals -- Creation, Cornerstone, Fishnet, to name a few -- Wild Goose is pitching bigger theological stakes. Franciscan friar Richard Rohr will lead a workshop; as will "recovering evangelical" writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer. .... The festival's most impressive feat may be that all the speakers and performers have waived their fees, essentially appearing for free." If Schaeffer is attending, then I might just pop in for a look. I recalled he posted about it back in May (he listed himself as a speaker): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/join-jim-wallis-20-other-_b_862040.html |
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 04:06:55 PM » |
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Organizers want to distance themselves from the politicized versions of Christianity, and re-engage in social justice work --
Yeah, Christians engaged in "social justice work" have rarely found themselves amid a highly politicized atmosphere. You have wonder anymore who gets paid to do journalism. Sounds like an interesting event. Hope you get a chance to go. |
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 04:51:26 PM » |
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I don't understand this social stuff. What is it supposed to be good for, pooling resources?? Because i can't see it's much use for nothing else other then that.
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 07:34:51 PM » |
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Organizers want to distance themselves from the politicized versions of Christianity, and re-engage in social justice work --
Yeah, Christians engaged in "social justice work" have rarely found themselves amid a highly politicized atmosphere.You have wonder anymore who gets paid to do journalism. Sounds like an interesting event. Hope you get a chance to go. Sharpton, Jackson, Wright, etc, Yup you're right, none of those guys are highly politicized.  |
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 08:29:13 PM » |
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I don't understand this social stuff. What is it supposed to be good for, pooling resources?? Because i can't see it's much use for nothing else other then that.
Helping the poor, making sure prisons and such are humane, etc. |
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2011, 01:02:09 PM » |
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I don't understand this social stuff. What is it supposed to be good for, pooling resources?? Because i can't see it's much use for nothing else other then that.
Helping the poor, making sure prisons and such are humane, etc. so basically just a resource issue. Ok fierce thanks |
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2011, 01:36:53 PM » |
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Yeah. As it says in 1 John, those of us who have the goods of this world should give to those who have none.
In an ideal world, families would always take care of their own with the Church stepping in to help those who don't have anyone. But since modern life has become so disconnected, we have to try and help society at large in order to accomplish this.
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2011, 12:44:31 PM » |
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Schaeffer comments on his experience at Wild Goose. I didn't get there early enough to hear his talk, but I was able to listen to Shane Claiborne and Jay Bakker (son of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker). The promo material said Wild Goose would be "transformational" and it was. I discovered my new favorite singer songwriter there -- the sublime Lydia Ruffin and her album The Feast of Life. Many if not most of the 1,200 or so of us were/are renegades, rejects and runaways from one or another sort evangelical background. The rest of us were between the ages of newborn to 12, so for every "grownup" there were two kids, a happy mix that provided a blur of painted faces, balloons and laughter. Music was the soundtrack echoing through the woods, past horse barns and farms.
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There was something new going on at Wild Goose: no separation of the "famous" speakers and authors, we "stars" and performers and the "ordinary" people who'd come to hear us. We all just milled around under the stars and giant oaks in the same space. McLaren slept in a tent. Tony Jones invited everyone to his RV. Sure, Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren were followed by their readers/groupies. But so what? There was no "green room" or other places to be hustled off to while people waited in line, because there were no lines, just us. We all stood in the same lines buying a slice or singing hymns in the beer tent. For four days we lived on a level playing field.
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Extra caritatem nulla salus.
In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness".
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Ἄνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Y dduw bo'r diolch.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2012, 11:05:59 AM » |
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The Goose is Loose for 2012. (Schedule won't be ready until 28 February.) |
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If you will, you can become all flame.
Extra caritatem nulla salus.
In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness".
I'm not a witch.
Ἄνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Y dduw bo'r diolch.
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2012, 03:16:02 PM » |
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I like music, and I like festivals, but I don't think I can make it over to NC. I hope good things will come out of it, though.
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2012, 03:58:51 PM » |
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I went to the website and I have to say that meh, Im not impressed. There are tons of these groups. Just seems like a bunch of Christian hipsters sitting around talking a big game to me. I get that when I go to Liberty University to use their soccer pitches  PP |
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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2012, 04:11:54 PM » |
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So this is some kind of hippie evangelist thing? I can't see words like "music festival" and "transformational" in the same blurb and not think "hippies". I too am unimpressed. You want transformational, you get yourself to your nearest Orthodox liturgy. (There's better music there, too.) This is just another product of the commercialization and irrelevance of modern Christianity. I wouldn't support it.
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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2012, 05:24:47 PM » |
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So this is some kind of hippie evangelist thing? I can't see words like "music festival" and "transformational" in the same blurb and not think "hippies". See, Im glad I wasnt the only one. I too am unimpressed. You want transformational, you get yourself to your nearest Orthodox liturgy. (There's better music there, too.) Probably a better use of deodorant and soap as well....... This is just another product of the commercialization and irrelevance of modern Christianity. I wouldn't support it. +1  PP |
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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2012, 09:56:23 PM » |
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I too am unimpressed. You want transformational, you get yourself to your nearest Orthodox liturgy. (There's better music there, too.) Probably a better use of deodorant and soap as well....... PP You ain't ROCOR I guess . . . |
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« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2012, 10:11:49 PM » |
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This sounds like something for people that like to build forts.* *I can't find the original, long, awful video where they ask for $25k anymore.  |
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« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2012, 06:09:49 PM » |
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... "recovering evangelical" writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer.
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If Schaeffer is attending, then I might just pop in for a look. Has he left the Orthodox Church then? |
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« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2012, 06:11:48 PM » |
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... "recovering evangelical" writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer.
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If Schaeffer is attending, then I might just pop in for a look. Has he left the Orthodox Church then? Nope. |
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Extra caritatem nulla salus.
In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness".
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Ἄνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas Gandhi
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« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2012, 01:38:23 AM » |
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... "recovering evangelical" writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer.
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If Schaeffer is attending, then I might just pop in for a look. Has he left the Orthodox Church then? Nope. I agree with the "Nope", but it is only evident when he is responding to comments in his blog. I have been following his blog because he did an about face on issues he was a clear spokesman for when I first ran into him (pro Iraq war, pro Pres Bush). |
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« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2012, 07:21:30 PM » |
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I find some aspects of his political about face confusing. He now seems very left, very liberal on most issues. His view on the nature of the OT at times seems quite hostile and antagonistic. I don't know what to make of it.
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« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2013, 09:55:34 AM » |
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"With gratitude to Shakori Hills for helping us start so well in our first two years, we are excited to announce that Wild Goose Festival will be returning August 8-11, 2013, in Hot Springs, near Asheville, NC!" Asheville is #11 on America's Most Bible-Minded Cities list. |
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Ἄνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Y dduw bo'r diolch.
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