As part of an ongoing project, I’m collecting some instructive ideas and understandings on this site into a new category called “Emergence“.  You can click on it in the headings above or click through the link.  I plan on describing what emergence is and what the emerging church means for liturgical and social justice Christians in a few short essays.

The first essay is not about emergence, but the literary theory, deconstruction.  The truth is that one of my pet peeves is that people assume that the theory is only interested in tearing things down, rather than the regenerative act of building them back up.  That people have built deconstruction as something to fear (or easily dismiss) demonstrates their own fear of what it would mean if their entire world-view were turned upside down.  Or perhaps they fear that what will be revealed is their own inadequacy.  Whatever the cause, many discourage you from seeing deconstruction for what it truly is–the revelation of our place and the act of owning one’s actions.