Why I am Emergent
When I’m with Emergent types, I often get asked “Why are you Episcopalian” which I have many answers (including this one I gave to Bruce Reyes-Chow) to and most respect. But when I’m with Episcopalians I often get a turned up eye and a weird look when I say I’m interested in the Emerging Church. [...]
U.S. Religion: Post-secular, More Secular, Post-christian?
In an Emergent Outliers discussion a few weeks ago the question came up as to whether the US is becoming more secular, is post-secular, post-Christian, or just post-denominational. Tough set of words to sort out. So much of what one will define the religious situation depends on one’s religious lifeworld. It is one’s own religious place [...]
The Heresy Line
As I write this, the Episcopal Presiding Bishop is still delivering her keynote speech. Evidently it has something about the great Western Heresy and it concerns individual versus communal salvation. There is already some blow-back. Until I hear more about it, I don’t have much to say on that particular issue.
But it does raise a [...]
