Today you may wonder if there is such a thing as a positive view or estimate of the Anglican rite of the Christian tradition. My approach to reflect on the pattern of renewal as inspired by the Spirit is to seek for what is alive as a spirituality within Anglicanism. Renewal by its very nature is the Spirits initiative to find ways to re-invigorate or re-animate a Christian expression of Church as a community speaking to the needs of the contemporary culture or societal context. Needless to say, this is always evolving or changing as history moves forward. It is a welcome antidote to the tendency these days to emphasize polemic or the opposites on the spectrum as if this is the only life option rather than the more appropriate sense of dialectic as authentic growth.
So let's look at a vital 'ecclesial pneumatic ethic' that is not simply eliciting a positive spin on the current state of affairs but is to try to discern where the Spirit is alive within the Church as an expression worth extoling in such a negatively charged dynamic so seemingly prevalent in the current affairs of the ecclesial environment...
The Celtic Grassroots of a Spirituality of Soul and Village:
Reflections of the Writings of Ed Leidel and Ray Simpson
Many today seem to long for a spirituality of church that would be open to discover a community that would allow a Celtic experiment to take place. Such a possibility is described in former Episcopal Bishop Ed Leidel's Awakening Grassroots Spirituality. In this guide, he shares with us such a vision, and gives us tools with which to bring the vision into being. He helps us explore what it might mean to have a hearth - God's hearth - at the heart of a person, a parish, and a diocese. The Celtic author and former Guardian of the Community of Aidan and Hilda, Ray Simpson, from the UK sites Leidel's work as another instance of the growing importance of grassroots Celtic spirituality, that is accessible to everyone, which for both authors is the primary importance of growing in God's Presence in community.
Leidel explores tools for Awakening this Nurturing of the Soul, such as:
Embracing Tears for new beginnings; Creating a Healthy Community; Building an Integrated Lifestyle; Finding a Gateway to God that fits your Temperament; Discovering Your Well of Grace in the Eight Deserts; Journeying through the Three Great Conversions of Life; Developing Your Own Habits of the Heart; Visioning a "Village of Heaven"; and Awakening to Begin Again.
The commonality of an accessible and equalitarian spirituality only makes sense if we focus on genuine intentional faith as servant community that builds each member up to extoll fully their gifts for community and because of community--for each must go together. The important reality then becomes how do we nurture genuine faith inspired community? These are the central tenants both Leidel and Simpson seek to explore each in their faith pilgrimage of the Celtic Desert Fathers and Mothers.
So let's look at a vital 'ecclesial pneumatic ethic' that is not simply eliciting a positive spin on the current state of affairs but is to try to discern where the Spirit is alive within the Church as an expression worth extoling in such a negatively charged dynamic so seemingly prevalent in the current affairs of the ecclesial environment...
The Celtic Grassroots of a Spirituality of Soul and Village:
Reflections of the Writings of Ed Leidel and Ray Simpson
Many today seem to long for a spirituality of church that would be open to discover a community that would allow a Celtic experiment to take place. Such a possibility is described in former Episcopal Bishop Ed Leidel's Awakening Grassroots Spirituality. In this guide, he shares with us such a vision, and gives us tools with which to bring the vision into being. He helps us explore what it might mean to have a hearth - God's hearth - at the heart of a person, a parish, and a diocese. The Celtic author and former Guardian of the Community of Aidan and Hilda, Ray Simpson, from the UK sites Leidel's work as another instance of the growing importance of grassroots Celtic spirituality, that is accessible to everyone, which for both authors is the primary importance of growing in God's Presence in community.
Leidel explores tools for Awakening this Nurturing of the Soul, such as:
Embracing Tears for new beginnings; Creating a Healthy Community; Building an Integrated Lifestyle; Finding a Gateway to God that fits your Temperament; Discovering Your Well of Grace in the Eight Deserts; Journeying through the Three Great Conversions of Life; Developing Your Own Habits of the Heart; Visioning a "Village of Heaven"; and Awakening to Begin Again.
The commonality of an accessible and equalitarian spirituality only makes sense if we focus on genuine intentional faith as servant community that builds each member up to extoll fully their gifts for community and because of community--for each must go together. The important reality then becomes how do we nurture genuine faith inspired community? These are the central tenants both Leidel and Simpson seek to explore each in their faith pilgrimage of the Celtic Desert Fathers and Mothers.