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or, dissolving the emerging church missions board!! What is the Emerging Church? What are they up too? How do they conceive of what they are doing? Well, for many, they view themselves as missionaries (or missional communities) to the emerging post-modern culture of the West. But I disagree. (if you are short time, skip to […]

Two people walk into a bar (b/c both believe in drinking) and start a conversation. We will just pretent that they are called B. Mac and Stan H. representing Emergent and the Ekklesia Project. Let’s listen in before they get to drunk to be coherent… — (the question posed by an third party is “What […]

Several people have recently criticized the Emerging Church (maggi dawn and raw faith) while others have defended its need for relevance and incaration (emergent~kiwi). It is an interesting conversation, usually split between the Emerging Church ex-evangelicals trying to reclaim but not become Mainline, Catholic, Anglican tradition, and mainliners from those traditions defending themselves from the […]

(the first of three, or so, posts coming out of my summer reading of Lev Manovich concerning new media and technology) ___ What if the direction of virtual reality were reversed such that it is not us that enters into a virtual reality, leaving our normal plane of existence, but rather we are always virtual […]

I was brooding over the two different strains of postmodern ethics/politics while walking home from the train station earlier this week, and this is what I came up with conerning the differences b/w the “Other” and the “Same”. From where did these two emphases come, and to which context are they addressed?_______ Sprouting amid the […]

Well, the ekklesia conference has come and gone and with it all the major activities of the summer.   I’m sad and glad about it.  For a run down of all the activities see AKMA’s summaries (who I finally met in person).  Others I met offline for the first time were anthony smith from the Weblog […]

Is any one going to the Ekklesia Conference next week?  If you are could you post a comment letting me know.  We should try to get the Chicago blogger together and at least meet face to face sometime while we are there. 

Who are the people? What is the vision? This is the vision of the Living: The Living see beyond themselves and their own desires. The Living see the basic needs and hopes of others as the same as their own. The Living know that even “dead men walking” can turn away from death toward life. […]

for those interested in willian cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination and/or the creation of the nation-state and the individual, see the discussion over at scandal of particularity.

The entire time I spent in a car last week I listened to Christian radio. Not because I naturally do this, but because I was teaching at a youth camp, and every time we got in a van we started listening to the alternative christian rock radio station. Through spending a week with jr. higher […]