Sunday, January 16, 2005

An Emerging What?

I've been doing some reading on the "Emerging Church" movement. Interesting stuff. How valid it is, I don't know. I am heartened by blogs by people like Doug Pagitt. I am somewhat troubled by blogs like that of Tony Jones.

The former is about dialog and respect. The latter seems about ranting and convincing.

I wonder how anyone can claim to be in a culture shaking movement while in the midst of that movement. The question is not so much "what do we think?" but rather "what will they think in 500 years when they look back?" At least with technology as it is, there will be a lot more primary source material for historians to evaluate.

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