Comments on: Interlogue #10 ~ Samir Selmanovic http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/ Re-imagining the Adventist Vision ~ Beyond Conservative and Liberal ~ Lifting Up the Family of Adventism Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Samir Selmanovic http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-444 Samir Selmanovic Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:04:04 +0000 http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-444 You are asking some insightful questions about the Faith House that require far more wisdom than I have. Those of us planning and praying about this project don't want to establish definitive boundaries and outcomes at this early stage simply to resolve the tensions we may feel. We want to live our way into the answers providing space for the many people we have not met yet. They will help craft the answers we need. At this time, we are spending most of our energy examining our motives and learning to live with hope. That being said, I will take steps towards answering your questions and will post them this week on my blog: www.faithhousemanhattan.org. Julius, thank you for a wonderful service you are doing for us all! You are asking some insightful questions about the Faith House that require far more wisdom than I have. Those of us planning and praying about this project don’t want to establish definitive boundaries and outcomes at this early stage simply to resolve the tensions we may feel. We want to live our way into the answers providing space for the many people we have not met yet. They will help craft the answers we need. At this time, we are spending most of our energy examining our motives and learning to live with hope.

That being said, I will take steps towards answering your questions and will post them this week on my blog: http://www.faithhousemanhattan.org.

Julius, thank you for a wonderful service you are doing for us all!

]]> By: Frank W. http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-350 Frank W. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:48:47 +0000 http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-350 If I was to have interviewed Samir, I would've asked these other questions. What are you going to do to stop Christians from dominating? If you don't want Christians to dominate, why even be linked to Adventism and what's the point of receiving endorsements from the SDA/Evangelical leaders you have on your web site? With Glenn, Are you looking for Muslim endorsements? If you're gonna go interfaith, why not non-Abrahamic religions? Why not Hindus and Buddhists also? Is there room for New Agers? Is this a different, postmodern way of evangelism into Adventism, or creation of a new pan-religious community? Which one is it? It's your turn, Samir. If I was to have interviewed Samir, I would’ve asked these other questions.

What are you going to do to stop Christians from dominating?

If you don’t want Christians to dominate, why even be linked to Adventism and what’s the point of receiving endorsements from the SDA/Evangelical leaders you have on your web site?

With Glenn, Are you looking for Muslim endorsements?

If you’re gonna go interfaith, why not non-Abrahamic religions? Why not Hindus and Buddhists also? Is there room for New Agers?

Is this a different, postmodern way of evangelism into Adventism, or creation of a new pan-religious community? Which one is it?

It’s your turn, Samir.

]]> By: Glenn http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-341 Glenn Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:19:13 +0000 http://progressiveadventism.com/2007/01/23/interlogue-10-samir-selmanovic/#comment-341 Thanks for the interview, Julias, Samir, can you tell us about your partners in this project? Are there Muslims, Jews, Unitarian-Universalists, or members from other faiths with the same disallusionments and hopes as you that plan on supporting you in this? Thanks for the interview, Julias,

Samir, can you tell us about your partners in this project? Are there Muslims, Jews, Unitarian-Universalists, or members from other faiths with the same disallusionments and hopes as you that plan on supporting you in this?

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