Interesting article from exciting Quaker Theologian Wess Daniels:

Desire and the Imagination of the Kingdom 

here’s a great quote from it:

“Often our worship involves passivity more than participation, our sermons tend to share the same thematic structures week after week, the same punchlines, and perpetuate a reliance on rational arguments to make points. We take the concrete words of Scripture and abstract them in a way that requires intellectual assent more than existential demand. I think we can also be guilty of draining people of kingdom imaginations. In what ways does our faith communities unknowingly manufacture consent with the world as opposed to a dissent for the kingdom?”

And even our Peace Tree Community cops a mention:

And how about imagination today? Communities like The Simply Way (and Shane Claiborne) and Australian “eco-evangelist” Jarrod McKenna and the emerging peace church he’s a part of, The Peace Tree, have been up to similar antics for God’s kingdom. McKenna’s group has been know for “liturgical actions” where they create sacred spaces for worship outside prisons for asylum seekers, to “peace and pizza” gatherings for their neighborhood friends in response to gang violence as a means to pray for peace and make space for dialogue and community support. Celebrating their love for creation they’ve also participated in guerrilla gardening, where people join together to take deserted spaces in our cities and fill them with beauty. These aren’t the impossible demands of radicals but rather the mission of God being lived out in concrete, yet inspiring, playful and dramatic ways.