tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post599065568424110246..comments2023-07-11T05:13:06.461-06:00Comments on Morehead's Musings: Burning Man, the Temple, and Memorial DayJohn W. Moreheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262542253787543738noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post-21474369811351617572007-12-02T12:48:00.000-07:002007-12-02T12:48:00.000-07:00Nic, thanks for this comment, and the many others ...Nic, thanks for this comment, and the many others you have posted in response to my reflections on Burning Man. I'm hopeful that others connected with Afrika Burns found value in my thoughts.<BR/><BR/>This particular topic is near and dear to me. As to what a specific example might be, I would love to see a daring church community find a space where they can receive permission from a city to engage in a burn periodically through the year. Some kind of transitory temple-like structures could be created on the space where people could write poems and words of grief that would be interactive and ritualistic, as well as serve as a place for grief and meditation. This structure would then be burned, perhaps on a semi-annual basis, and serve the function that it does on Burning Man. I believe this would be very powerful and would serve to connect an ekklesia community to aspects of the broader culture.<BR/><BR/>Beyond this you will note at the bottom of my post on this topic that I have linked this post to another one I did more recently when I addressed the Dumb Supper and Mourning Tee at the Festival of the Dead in Salem. What about ekklesia communities recontextualizing their own Festival of the Dead and including such elements? Again, I think these would be very powerful. I hope to be able to experiment with such things with others who think outside the box in the near future.John W. Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01262542253787543738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post-75437542477357026242007-12-02T02:16:00.000-07:002007-12-02T02:16:00.000-07:00Failed Rites of passage, Unpaid bills of the churc...Failed Rites of passage, Unpaid bills of the church... I wholeheartedly intuit these thoughts.<BR/><BR/>John, this is the last writ on the wonderful list you have provided in response to Afrika Burns.<BR/><BR/>I would like to know how you put some of this stuff into practice...<BR/>What for example might be a rite of passage to deal with grief in the ecclesia, or indeed in western society at large?<BR/><BR/>For my contribution see http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/in-memory-a-letter/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com