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. [...]
Orthopraxadoxy
We like to dichotomize things. It makes our lives much easier when things can be easily compartmentalized and divided. But the problem with that tendency is that it creates unneeded — and often blatantly false — polarities and bifurcations. These type of constructions are endemic in the modern church and some of the more common [...]
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 [...]
