The Freakonomics blog recently ran a , and after receiving 1,200+ comments, they : (1) "The Most Gentle Empire So Far" (2) "You Should See the Other Guy" (3) "Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776" (4) "Just Like Canada, With Better Bacon" and (5) "Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay". Voting is open for 48 hours... I voted for #1.
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A while back, my friend pointed out that . He even presented him with the snazzy image/award at the top of this post. Well, he was absolutely right.
Josh's basic beef was that Ken scours emergent-ish blogs for fodder on his own fundamentalist, anti-emerging "blog" (I use quotes because he doesn't allow comments), where he warns "believers" of the cancerous effects of all things emergent.
Anyway, this is all to get to the point that Ken recently wrote a post entitled "The Emerging Church Swallowing Youth" (I won't link to it; he doesn't deserve the Google juice) in which he links to the interview I did with Tony Jones and then claims that "the Emergent Church has been using your young as spiritual guinea pigs". Woohoo! I hit the bigtime - a link from Ken Silva!
Oh, and then he gives his warning:
Well, know this: In the eyes of our Lord, by your not speaking up at your local churches, you are responsible for allowing this Emergent rebellion against the Bible to swallow up a whole generation of evangelical young—a kind of spiritual abortion—in their “fertile training ground” for this man-centered emerging church apostasy.
So in the name of full disclosure, I align with many of the theological and philosophical underpinnings of the emerging conversation. Indeed, my spiritual journey has been decidedly enriched by it. However: If you're reading this -- and you go to my church -- please, please speak up and do something about my heretical tendencies. All of the 40+ students in my ministry are in grave danger.
Oh yeah, and thanks again for the link, Ken.
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by publishing their scholarly articles on an online open-access repository for free. "The goal of university research is the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge... We have an essential responsibility to distribute the fruits of our scholarship as widely as possible." This is huge. (More )
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Scott from has in the popular "123" or "closest book" meme, which has been around for a really long time (I remember seeing it in '06), even though it's been spreading like wildfire as of late [UPDATE: Looks like I was tagged a couple weeks ago... whoops]. Anyway, here's how it works.
(1) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating! (2) Turn to page 123. (3) Find the first 5 sentences. (4) Post the next 3 sentences. (5) Tag 5 people.
Here goes:
I will revisit the pain of my mother's forgiveness in chapter 6. My father never talked about how it felt forgiving a person who killed his boy; he never talked much about how anything felt, though he was a deeply sensitive man. But that forgiveness must have cost him a great deal too, possibly no less that it cost my mother.
The passage is from the book , by Croatian-American theologian Miroslav Volf, which was sitting on my bed (right behind me). Those three sentences actually provide a lot of insight into how Volf does theology - often through anecdotes and achingly honest personal narrative.
I tag , , , , and . You're it.
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I've been sick the past few days with the flu and bronchitis, but these were still able to blow my mind.
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looks at the tight race between (the) Clinton(s) and Obama. "However boring, this show was a dramatic encapsulation of how a once-invincible candidate ended up in a dead heat, crippled by poll-tested corporate packaging that markets her as a synthetic product leeched of most human qualities. What’s more, it offered a naked preview of how nastily the Clintons will fight, whatever the collateral damage to the Democratic Party, in the endgame to come."
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