-
·
What I Heard Phyllis Say
At the end of last week’s Emergence Christianity conference (#EC13) there was a confusion. Phyllis Tickle, the conference keynote speaker, who presented her work on Emergence Christianity throughout, made a couple of controversial statements. Julie Clawson makes a good accounting for them here. However, I heard her differently. First, I will state that I…
-
·
The Two Simple Solutions
One of the tragedies of the passing of the modern age was its perceived simplicity. There were facts and we knew them. And if we didn’t know them, then we could discover them. And even though we can intellectually understand complexity in the postmodern age, we haven’t truly grappled with an important revealed truth: for…
-
·
A People’s History it is
In Diana Butler Bass’s new book, the author tackles a worthy endeavor–placing the small voices that helped direct the history of the church into their proper and influential context–is an important and worthy practice for our church. The deft way with which Butler Bass navigates this potentially divisive approach makes this one of the most…
-
·
Varying expressions of church
One of the most amazing things to me is the varying expressions of church that there are already. We allow in our minds the thought that Catholics and Baptists can both be worshiping on Sunday mornings. This doesn’t hurt our brains. But for some reasons, the modernists, the skeptics, and the trolls among us cannot…