Category Archives: postmodernism

Why Can’t Emergent Get Down with Rural?

August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
I read an arti­cle today (via Brent’s Town Crier) about why rural min­istry isn’t con­sid­ered cool. This has always stumped me, par­tic­u­larly with regard to emer­gent church stuff. If small com­mu­ni­ties who aren’t play­ing the num­bers game is where it’s at, if we’re inter­ested in peo­ple who are closely tied to their local com­mu­ni­ties, their local [...]
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An Open Letter to My Brother

December 14, 2006 | Leave a comment
You were ask­ing last week about post­mod­ernism and whether or not it’s just artsy-fartsy types ris­ing up against an engineer-dominated soci­ety and demand­ing they be put in charge. In some ways, I think you might be right, really. Here’s my thing about it all. Mod­ern (as opposed to post­mod­ern) thought started w/ the Renai­sance [...]
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Chuck Colson and Brian McLaren

November 19, 2006 | Leave a comment
I think I’ve posted this (or at least read it) before, but here’s a let­ter to Brian McLaren from Chuck Col­son in response to McLaren’s response to Colson’s Chris­tian­ity Today col­umn (sorry, it’s 1:40 and I don’t have the time/desire to dig up the links to the orig­i­nal col­umn or McLaren’s response). I don’t agree w/ [...]
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The Prisonhouse of Words Revisted

November 13, 2006 | Leave a comment
I’ve blogged about the pris­on­house of words before. And caught some flak about it.Here’s a wikipedia link to the pris­on­house of words idea. Where I went to col­lege, this was a huge part of the phi­los­o­phy they taught. In a lot of ways, it under­pins the way I under­stand post-modernity. Let me see if [...]
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