New Spirituality apologetics

I really just want to give a cheer for this "Those who believe in pursuing contextual missions inside the culture of late capitalism in the west must place alternate spiritualities and new religious movements close to the centre of their passion. For too long the subject has been relegated to the fringes of the Church's missional heartbeat; and it has often been handled by zealous apologists whose technical skills have been honed in the art of discerning heresies, but usually without the benefit of intra-communal dialogue with the missions community generally." And for the blog that it comes from. This is spot on in my view; if you 'get' the new spiritualities then you 'get' an important bit of contemporary western culture. We need constructive engagment every bit as earnest and well-thought through as with major recognised world faiths.

I've long been experimenting with liturgising in ways that might feel about right to people in new spiritualities and I think that we need to continue to do this as part of getting our own heads and hearts around what is going on spiritually in our culture. The interesting thing is to try ot do ritual in ways that don't take late Roman Empire ritual language as a necessary basis. One of the best liturgies for starting withn some of this is the Liturgy of the Church of South India not least because of the way that eastern religious terminology has become a part of western spiritual searching: the engagment with Hindu and Buddhist ideas is particularly helpful, I think. I have borrowed from this liturgy and found it very resonant.
circle of pneuma: Bolger & New Spirituality: