Modernity as Toolbox
The Guardian.uk’s Theo Hobson has an interesting piece on the Greenbelt religious festival in England, where modernity is more toolbox than threat.
I think that Greenbelt is part of a major religious trend that has not been very widely noted. A new style of liberal Christianity is slowly emerging. Because it is not a coherent movement with a bullet-point agenda it gets ignored, but it could almost be seen as a new wing of the church. It is most simply summed up in a pejorative way: trendy-arty-liberal. To put it more positively, this new style of Christianity is defined by a confidence that contemporary culture is a resource rather than a threat. It is also defined by scepticism towards traditional church.
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