Like the individuals who constitute them, they are unfinished and “in the making.” They have the capacity to move for-ward if they choose. Which road will you take? What’s true of you is also true for every community of people, including our spiritual communities. You also have the freedom to stagnate, regress, constrict, and lose your way. You are “in the making.” You have the capacity to learn, mature, think, change, and grow. What we will be as Christians in the 21st century, for better or worse, will surely change what Christian faith will be in the 22nd century and beyond.” It continues to grow, evolve, learn, change, emerge, and mature … in and through us. The title suggests that Christian faith is still “in the making” (as Dr. Wanderer, there is no road– Only wakes upon the sea.” Antonio Machado, Campos de CastillaĪntonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (1875-1939) By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. “Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.” Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. “Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Freire may have derived the quote from the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado:
He used this title for a published dialogue between Freire and another seminal educator/activist, Myles Horton, who was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the US. “The title comes from one of Brian’s heroes, Brazilian educator/activist Paolo Freire. One key writer on the re-discovery of Christian life in the “Postmodern Matrix” is Brian McLaren.īrian McLaren “We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation and Activation” This has included the re-discovery of the life of the Hermit and the development of a “New Monasticism” in Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant communities. The end of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of reflections on and explorations of new possibilities for the expression of the Christian Faith in the world.
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