Third Millennium Church

Some Further Reading

Since I'm on a bit of a hiatus working on my book, I thought I'd at least give a few links to some of the reading I've been doing.  These works will serve to flesh out some of the ideas I've been playing with.

A New Kind of Christian, Brian McLaren

The God We Never Knew, Marcus Borg

The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong

For linguistics, I refer you to Donald Davidson's work, especially his most recent book of essays.

Truth, Language, and History, Donald Davidson

My Master's work used a lot from one of his other book of essays, especially the essay called Radical Interpretation.

Inquires into Truth and Interpretation, Donald Davidson

For cosmology, assuming you have some undergrad physics, you should investigate Seth Lloyd's ideas of the universe as a quantum computer.

Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd

I hope these pointers help you as we approach the problem of building a church for the Third Millennium.

Starting Over

It's been a while since the 3mchurch.com site was updated, but this is my attempt to switch it to a blog format to make it easier to update and easier for people to contribute via comments. I think this'll work since my favorite part of the old site was the Spot On column that I wrote, which will continue here. The idea is that if I'm good at categorizing all the writings here, you should be able to use the category guide to the right to find all the writings on a given topic. Spot On will morph into the "blog" part of the blog, if you get what I mean.

I'll get 3mchurch.org and 3mchurch.net pointing at this now and follow up with 3mchurch.com when it's convenient. I'll also get up some basic documents about what we're doing as soon as possible, so that you can better understand just what we are doing here.

Of course the main reason for starting up the site again is that my Master's in Philosophy is nearing completion and it has helped clarify many of the issues that we were dealing with at the old site.