Upcoming post (Oct 24) Halloween
I’m going to be syncroblogging about around the theme “A Christian Response to Halloween” on Wed 24 Oct. A syncro blog, at least in my understanding, is a bunch of people blogging around the same theme at the same time (without reading anyone else’s posts fist). Each person syncroblogging references everyone else posting on the same subject.
Is anyone else keen to syncroblog? Visit http://squarenomore.blogspot.com/2007/10/next-synchroblog-wednesday-october-24th.html and sign up.
Categories: Uncategorized
Welcome to the Synchroblog!
There’s always soemthing interesting to read, and the variety of points of view adds to the interest.
I’ve signed up.
Talking of signs: great appropriation of USB as crucifix!
How far does the metaphor go for you?
Hi Nic,
I’ve just started appropriating it for use with spirituality and believe there’s some interesting potential. For me “connecting” has been an important part of my life and my journey with people. USB enables us to connect various things – a mouse, keyboard, printer, storage device, etc. – quickly and simply. Similarly, people are varied and connect at various levels and with various different parts. I’d like to develop the metaphor along the lines of people being USB compliant, able to interface across various barriers – race, language, culture, faith, interests, hobbies, etc.
With regard to using it as a crucifix metaphor. Though God/-ess is vast and beyond our capacity to quarintine in thoughts, buildings, labs and religious systems, S/He created us to interface with reality which includes visible and invisible components as well as with Godself, who lies beyond time and space and who lives, before, after and during all that is. That God/-ess would take on our humanity going so far as to identify with us to the point of death simply blows my mind. That S/He would do so in order to bring us to life, life to the full, life where we’re re-”connected” with ourselves, others, nature, the invisible dimension and Godself – that just, so… WOW!
Nic, can you see any parallels you’d like to comment on?