Steubenville is, of course, an epicenter of the Renewal.) There is something that tends to unhinge “members” of the Renewal from normal ecclesial life. (See this article on the downfall of the Steubenville covenant community, Servants of Christ the King, for another example. It seems that where there is a covenant community, there is the Charismatic Renewal. Then I will talk a bit more about LOG, and I will talk about its new incarnation.įirst observation: the so-called Charismatic Renewal is a common theme. I will provide links to caches of documents on MOG ( here) and LOG ( here) and make a few observations about commonalities among covenant communities, those two in particular. I won’t go into all the problems of these groups (especially WOG, which I don’t know much about). (You might be familiar with the publication that came out of the group, called “The Word Among Us.”) The last group was begun in the Greater Baltimore area in the late 70’s and ran into the mid-90’s when it was effectively dissolved by Cdl. The second is a D.C./Gaithersburg group which was radically reorganized in the late-90’s by Cdl. The first is the covenant community which was (until 1990) immediately operated by Sword of the Spirit, the Ann Arbor-based ecumenical super-community. The three acronyms in the title stand for Word of God, Mother of God, and Lamb of God. And you are free to disagree with my assessment… I think that such freedom is important, don’t you? So if a WOG-er, LOG-er, or MOG-er is reading this – and I think that is likely to happen – please don’t feel personally judged. So this is not a post about people who were involved (save for one), but the way that people interacted with one another in a certain context. Communities are more than the sum of their parts. Let me be clear: I mostly don’t want to talk about people… I really want to talk about the community. I have close connections with people who were involved, I have been to their school, I have talked with people affected by the community’s activity and fallout, and I have met their former leader. Before we begin our superficial case studies of two Maryland-based covenant communities gone haywire, I want the readership to know of my own personal connections with one of them (LOG). No, I’m not crying for help, that last one stands for Sword of the Spirit, a group which has indeed made people cry for help.
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