How (Not) to Speak of God

Mesh is back, baby. Well, we will be after Christmas, anyway... We'll meet in Sterling on January 18th at7:30pm to discuss How (Not) to Speak of God--and all are welcome whether they've read the book or not. I was at a conference in Richmond last month where the author Peter Rollins was a featured speaker, and it was incredibly cool to see this scruffy Irish guy stand up in the middle of the rather staid Episcopal parish where I grew up and talk about the future of the church. And tell jokes. So I bought the book, and am halfway through it, and am highly impressed.

Rollins' book has its own Wikipedia page (!) which says, somewhat dryly:

How (Not) To Speak Of God is a non-fiction work by Peter Rollins, the co-ordinator of an emerging church group called Ikon. Influenced by Ikon services, the book aims to re-envisage faith in the postmodern world, moving away from dogmatic certainties and towards an appreciation of provisionality, fragility and fragmentation.

I'm pretty sure it's a little more interesting than that paragraph sounds. The second half of the book is about various services that the Ikon community has put together--sort of a handbook for emerging-church liturgy. It'll be an interesting discussion!

Get the book here. And if you're coming, make sure to sign up on our yahoogroups page so that we can send you directions. See you there--and bring a friend.