TEAM conference winds up
The secular media did not pay much attention to the TEAM conference which concludes today in South Africa, but ENS has provided excellent coverage, including a terrific photo gallery.
The best story I've read on the confrence by someone who doesn't work for ENS is this article from the Inter Press Service News Agency, which focuses on power relationships.
Also check out the Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation blogspot at http://e4gr.blogspot.com/ .
Posted by PeaceJustice | March 14, 2007 10:42 AM
Of course the secular media paid this no attention. This was the church doing its mission, which doesn't get a reported onto the front page.
When I was in Tanzania, I spent a fair amount of time giving background to reporters for major news outlets. Almost without exception, their one-track approach was "schism imminent" or "threat of schism." Even when the facts of the primates' activities suggested otherwise, that was the one story they'd write.
I keep saying that our current "crisis" is an invention of a few bishops and sensationalist reporting. In South Africa we had a chance to see an alternate reality, where people gathered as the Body of Christ and celebrated a global communion. Not a word from the Network, not a word from the major media outlets, not much in the blogosphere. It doesn't fit with the desired narrative.
We need to remind people that the "crisis" is not our guiding narrative. That's what we're called to do, I think. Proclaim the Good News, and sometimes remind people that the Good News is the news.
Posted by Scott Gunn | March 14, 2007 11:28 AM