That’s right, I hereby declare this day, June 17th, “National Thank Your Commenter Day.” You guys are basically the life force that keep me blogging, carrying on the conversation to a level that I cannot do alone, you guys make my blog worth reading. Often times we don’t think about the commenting section as the [...]
So, every few months we manage to find one post and it creates some massive waves around the emergent/ing blogosphere. We (at this point in time I speak for emergenT) seem to really like the posts that have to do with emergent dying. I wrote one of those myself (unfortunetely all the comments were lost [...]
There are a lot of thinkers out there, there are a lot of tinkerers out there, there are a lot of voices that don’t always have a platform to speak from out there, and there is a lot to learn from all of those people. My hope is via “Open Table Theology” to bring some [...]
There was some noise in the emerget/ing blogosphere a while back about the forthcoming death of emergent, and while it was going on, I kept thinking “Man, I hope not, that would be a bit of a blow to me.” I felt like I needed the structure of the EC to continue on so I [...]
A friend of mine recently published the following critique of emergent, it’s quite a read (quite longer than… like 99.9% of my posts), but I feel that it’s a good read. It’s an honest critique of emergent, not attacking, simply assessing. Often times, we get overly defensive when critiqued, I would ask that anyone who [...]
I’m kind of testing the waters here and seeing if there are any signs of interest in this before I take any steps. I’ve been part of the “emergent conversation” for about a year and a half now, and through my (very poor) networking skills I’ve managed to come across a few people who I [...]
This is an email I recieved from an old friend last weekend. I’m going to post my response here as well, as I think these are good questions that show some more insight into my life/thoughts/faith. So I noticed you’re into all the Emergent stuff. I’ve been interested in this whole movement for a few [...]
I don’t know if it will actually come to anything, I may just be stuck in Georgia forever, but I have been thinking of getting out of this state a lot over the past few weeks. In Georgia I feel like a lone ship thrashing about on a sea of conservatism, consumerism, and evangelicalism. It’s [...]
I was told recently that my habit of questioning everything is corrosive to my life. At first, I was a little taken aback at the time and kind of laughed it off, now that I’ve spent some time thinking about it, I’m going to say that person was quite wrong about the whole situation. (And [...]
Where am I headed? If you had asked me a few years ago where I wanted to end up, I probably would have responded with something like a restaurant owner, police officer, or world famous musician. How funny are the changes with time? Two of those things would have involved large amounts of wealth for [...]