The CANA Initiative - Courageous & Compassionate Religious Reformation

The last two decades have been an exciting time for witnessing emerging expressions of faith across the entire religious landscape.  Worldwide we’ve seen new churches started, new religious organizations formed, theologies advocated, books written, websites started, and existing institutions changed; some diminished and many made stronger.  Risk taking and innovation has been at the cost of great personal sacrifice by many individuals. Some have said, "It is Christianity doing its cyclical 500 year reinventing of itself." The movement is making real effort to hear the new generation of voices, while at the same time being supported by seasoned elders to help create a sustainable infrastructure.  The Cana initiative has made a serious effort to support this movement and help create stronger networks which  embody the positive, courageous, and compassionate reformation of the religious value systems within modern Christianity. "Religion does need new leaders, spiritual men and women who will dare to depend solely on Jesus and his incomparable teachings. ... And then will these spirit-born souls quickly supply the leadership and inspiration requisite for the social, moral, economic, and political reorganization of the world." (The Urantia Book 195:9.4) Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers. The kingdom of the divine brotherhood is still alive and will eventually and certainly come forth from this long submergence, just as surely as the butterfly eventually emerges as the beautiful unfolding of its less attractive creature of metamorphic development. (170:5.21) It is our contention that Christianity is attempting to unify its diversity in a dynamic appreciation of shared faith and mutual goals. We've invited a few of the movers and shakers in the Cana Initiative to share their experience, join us.