Here’s my point: if you narrow the emerging movement to Emergent Village, and especially to the postmodernist impulse therein, you can probably dismiss this movement as a small fissure in the evangelical movement. But, if you are serious enough to contemplate major trends in the Church today, at an international level, and if you define emerging as many of us do — in missional, or ecclesiological terms, rather than epistemological ones — then you will learn quickly enough that there is a giant elephant in the middle of the Church’s living room. It is the emerging church movement and it is a definite threat to traditional evangelical ecclesiology.
I went to the Prairie Festival over the October 6-8 weekend, held at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas...Here's a little summary.
We camped on the grounds, along with a couple hundred other people. The organizers estimated between 600-800 people in all. It was fun to people-watch, because there was a wide variety of age, backgrounds and styles of dress. Here are some of my notes from the speakers...
Without you, Mr. President, Darfur doesn't have a prayer. We come to you from across the evangelical spectrum. We beseech you to act on your faith and do the right thing by leading the world to stop the genocide affecting "the least of these" in Darfur. To date, more than 400,000 people have been killed. 2.5 million displaced. Countless more have been raped, maimed, and tortured: Men, women, and children created in God's image, innocents all. Ending the atrocities will require your personal leadership in supporting the deployment of a strong U.N. peacekeeping force and multilateral economic sanctions. While we often disagree on matters of politics, we are united in the belief that your intervention can make the critical difference in Darfur. We join together now to urge you, in the words of Proverbs 24:11-12, to "rescue those being led away to death." We pledge to do everything we can to rally support in both Congress and the U.N. to support your leadership in ending the horror in Darfur.
This is interesting... I'm not sure if it's kudos for the Daily Show or just awful marks for traditional news programs:
The Daily Show is much funnier than traditional newscasts, but a new study from Indiana University says it has the same amount of meat on its bones when it comes to coverage of the news. The brand of news coverage Jon Stewart and the rest of The Daily Show's staff brings to the airwaves is just as substantive as traditional news programs like World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News, according to the study conducted by IU assistant professor of telecommunications Julia R. Fox and a couple of graduate students.
IN THE BEGINNING (SAY, THE REAGAN ERA), ALL WAS DARKNESS. To liberal
American Christians, the environment was largely a luxury item, well
down on the list below war and poverty...Meanwhile, many environmentalists were more secular than the
American norm, and often infected with the notion spread by the
historian Lynn White in his famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of
Our Ecologic Crisis,” that Christianity lay at the root of ecological
devastation. Everyone, in short, was scared of everyone else.
I went to the Prairie Festival over the October 6-8 weekend, held at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas...Here's a little summary.
Without you, Mr. President, Darfur doesn't have a prayer.
IN THE BEGINNING (SAY, THE REAGAN ERA), ALL WAS DARKNESS. To liberal
American Christians, the environment was largely a luxury item, well
down on the list below war and poverty...Meanwhile, many environmentalists were more secular than the
American norm, and often infected with the notion spread by the
historian Lynn White in his famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of
Our Ecologic Crisis,” that Christianity lay at the root of ecological
devastation. Everyone, in short, was scared of everyone else.