Ian Mobsby in Denver!
Saturday June 14th 2-4
St Paul Lutheran Church
1600 Grant street in downtown Denver
House for All Sinners and Saints
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I am the mission developer for House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. We are an urban liturgical community with a progressive yet deeply rooted theological imagination. Check out our site for more info.
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You can go to our Cafe Press store and buy t-shirts and other stuff with out Parchment with a nail at the top logo on the front - and "radical protestants; nailing sh*t to the church door since 1517" on the back.
books and magazines i dig
Nadia Bolz-Weber: Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television
This is my book. It will change your life. Ok, not really.- Nadia Bolz-Weber (that's me!): Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television
Here's my book. You should buy it. Kester Brewin: Signs of Emergence
This book is tremendous. Drawing on his background as a math teacher, Brewin explores why the church is where it is and why it is to change...using complexity theory. This is a must read.Edward and Lorna Mornin: Saints: A Visual Guide
This is a gorgeous handbook of the saints.Peter Rollins: How (Not) to Speak of God.
Pete is an emerging church pastor of the Ikon community in Belfast, Ireland. I can't recommend this book enough.Phyllis Tickle: The divine hours
Phyllis is one the smartest women I've ever met. I'm using this book for matins and noon prayer as well as vespers and compline.- the original editor of Ad Busters: Geez Magazine
*holy mischief in an age of fast faith* I cannot recommend this enough. Ad free, gorgeous, pleasingly dangerous. geez Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith
One of my favorite books of all time. She's pretty cranky and sarcastic too.Eddie Gibbs: Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures
Gibbs and Bolger spent 5 years compiling this book which relys heavily on interviews with emerging church leaders in the US and the UK. They seem to favor independant churches over denominational ones...so very little is said about us "loyal radicals"
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The blog of a dad, husband, Lutheran pastor, emerging, failing, conversing, confessing. - Ian Mobsby
Ian is the Anglican Priest at Moot in London. - Matt Stone
This is a great blog from Down Under which explores Christianity and religious pluralism - Luther Punk
Like Ward Cleaver with tattoos - Ian Adams
Ian is the priest of the MayBe community in Oxford...I think he's pretty stinkin' cool. - Rachael
cool chick...check her out - MayBe
This is a great emerging church community we spent time with in Oxford. Their website is well worth a look, especially the page "the spirit of MayBe" - Mad Priest
If I'm the Sarcastic Lutheran, he's certainly the Sarcastic Anglican... - Steve Collins
Steve's an interesting and articulate emerging church brit. - The Mercy Seat
This is a really groovey new church plant in NorthEast Minneapolis, amazing jazz liturgy. Their website is well worth checking out
Recent Posts
- Sermon on the Bleeding Woman
- A poem inspired by the post below
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- Sermon on Judas (Easter 7b)
- Video of the St Gregory of Nyssa liturgy for which I was the preacher
- HFASS Blessing of the Bicycles
- Sermon on Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
- HFASS' 1st Annual Blessing of the Bicycles
- Installation of Paul Fromberg as rector of St Gregory of Nyssa church in SF (sermon)
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Saturday June 14th 2-4
St Paul Lutheran Church
1600 Grant street in downtown Denver
Pente-chaos::Water::Fire::Wind
Our Pente-chaos service started with a remembrance of baptism in which facts about water (6 of them) and the sections of the Lutheran Remembrance of Baptism liturgy (4 sections) were each written on individual pieces of paper and given to 10 folks when they walked in to worship. They were asked to read these in a specific order and as they did, to place the pieces of paper into the water of the clear baptismal bowl. So we began with things like -by the time you are thristy you have 1% of your total body water, because of evaporation and condensation, the water on the Earth now is the same water that has always been here... and then went right into Your spirit moved over the face of the waters bringing forth creation....you saved Noah and his family form the waters of the flood....with water you claim us as your own....
Then we used the baptismal water for aspersion. (showering a bit of it on everyone)
For The Word section of the liturgy we projected a film loop of fire
Andie sang the descant for Viene Sancte Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit)
3 stations were set up: The Church, The World, and All Those in Need. At each station were colored markers and strips of fabric on which to write petitions. We then during the Prayers of the People simply read each petition and then pinned them on a line, turned on a fan and watched them blow out into the world.
Then we all celebrated with our Holy Ghost Red Velvet Cake.
Holy Trinity Sermon out-take
A few sentences I had to cut from tomorrow's sermon, so I am letting them live here:
Much ink and much blood has been spilled on the matter of the Trinity doctrine.
Are we celebrating God as bad math? 1+1+1=1?
Why don’t we add some other church doctrine festivals? We could have “Substitutionary Atonement” Sunday where we celebrate God as angry cigar chopping loan shark demanding his pound of flesh. Or perhaps “Divine Inspiration of Scripture” Sunday and celebrate God as confused librarian.
Ian Mobsby Tour
Ian Mobsby of the Moot community in London is coming to the states and Canada on a speaking tour. If he's going to be anywhere close to you, check him out - it'll be well worth it!
Find out locations and dates here.
The House for All Sinners and Saints is hosting a forum on Neo-monasticism with Ian on June 14th at 1:30pm, St Paul's church at 1600 Grant in Downtown Denver.
Bible Study
House's Bible Study. 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month 6pm in the basement of St. Mark's Coffee Shop on 17th between Vine and Race in Denver
