The Wandering Christian Conversation is now meeting in in the church parlor every other Thursday. We’re currently reading Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity. The next session will be Thursday, May 24th at 6:30 PM for snacks and gathering, with the discussion starting at 7:00.
“An unquestioned answer is worse than an unanswered question.”
Like that old, soulful U2 rock anthem, do you sometimes find yourself singing “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for?” Or maybe you find yourself “losing your religion” just like that classic R.E.M. song says. “I cant Live… with or without you” might perfectly describe your relationship with the institutional church… But in any case, you definitely feel emotionally distant from the Christian spirituality and Sunday worship you grew up with and possibly experience now. Curious to find out why you’re having these feelings/thoughts? But more importantly, curious if there is a better way to think about and practice faith?
The roots of this disconnect between what we are and what we grew up with are many: generational, philosophical (postmodernity, for example), educational (if you grew up in an anti-intellectual church), and cultural. Someone recently observed, “We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask whether the church is in sync with their deepest beliefs and commitments.”
“Wandering Christian Conversation” will take up & explore these and other theological/cultural questions. The possibilities for exploration are actually exciting once you start being creative and think “outside the box!” We are united by a love of asking questions, Enjoying a drink together, and reading/discussing Emerging Christianity-type books. On our part, we are a multicultural, multi-creedal, and global Christian-type of group. We come from many backgrounds and traditions. But most importantly, we embrace and wrestle with the faith we were raised in, the traditions of all the major christian denominations (orthodox, catholic, and the multitude of protestant streams) as well as the faith we hold for ourselves.
Authors that we might discuss would be Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, Donald Miller, Neil Cole, Tim Keller, and more. If you love to read books by these authors and others like them, you’ll fit right in. And if you don’t like to read, you can just jump in the discussion.
This group is for Christians who, like Jacob, wrestle with God and don’t let go until we hear His voice directly… and most of us have a limp because of it. 
All faiths, all beliefs, all doctrinal stances, all questions, all colors, all races, and all ages welcome. We don’t promise answers, but we do promise a safe place to ask your questions and honest feedback for you to think about.
