Wild Goose Festival & Ian's thoughts on post cynical Christians

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1. Ian Cron

   June 30, 2012 at 9:05 am

   I want to acknowledge and commend a book by Andrew Byers entitled Faith Without Illusions: Following Jesus as a Cynic-Saint. I drew material from this book when I spoke at Wild Goose and in my remarks on this podcast.

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2. Peter Banks

   June 30, 2012 at 12:38 pm

   Interesting stuff, now wondering if this will be one of your talks at Greenbelt later this year?

   Your buddy Shane Claiborne was recently quoted by Bishop Graham Cray: ‘being discontented (with church) was a gift for the church’. Graham then drew a distinction between being discontented and disengaged which prompted me to think cynics tend to already be disengaged? Personally I feel like an Exile that still feels called to attend… but, rather than being disengaged I feel it is more of a case of there being such a massive disconnect for us creative types whilst there are such battles raging between traditionalism and/or commercialism within the institution.

   Wild Goose sounds just like the early years of Greenbelt, I am a veteran of the very first one in 1974 and although cannot lay claim to attending every year, I never miss it now and still the chance encounters are so special!

   So, on a mildly pedantic note U2 were never GB’s ‘houseband’… they played a 23 minute set in 1981 on borrowed instruments and legend has it that Bono subsequently visited under cover as a steward!

   Best, PB
   PS Recently reviewed Chasing Francis on my blog, btw…

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