What are the Benefits of Being Independent?

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by A_PoMo

Sure, just as long as you don't expect me to have all the answers. I'm post-modern, I have alot of questions and very few answers.

It's funny the reactions I get from church folk when I mention pomo and emergent. I carpool to school w/a good Conservative Baptist guy and you should have seen him weird out and get all twitchy when I said, "I want to start a church for post-moderns." I thought that was a pretty harmless statement, but he about passed a large-print KJV hardback in my front seat. After awhile he calmed down and now we're friends again. There's alot of misinformation out there about 'the emerging church' from what I can tell, although I can't comment either way on your website. You recommended it to me recently but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I bookmarked it though.

You should check out the blog on that site called Parchment and Pen. There's mucho stuff on the emerging church as of late and this article which reminds me of you. LOL Here's a snippet:

"Bono’s Charge Against American Evangelicalism
~ C Michael Patton ~

With all this talk about the problems in my Evangelical tradition and the way it is perceived from the outside, I thought that I would have you look at it through the eyes of Irish rocker and lead singer of U2 Bono (Paul Hewson). Bono is a Christian, but he would be best classified as an emerging Christian. As I often say, Bono was emerging when emerging wasn’t cool. All of his songs tell a message, a Christian message, of some sort.

Below is an interpretation of “Crumbs from Your Table.” Bono has said that this song was written to the Evangelical church many years ago (late nineties). In recent interviews, however, he says that he has changed his opinion, to some degree, about the Evangelical church because they have proved themselves more concerned about social issues. President Bush was part of the reason that Bono changed, but it also came through many meetings Bono had with Evangelical leaders in the last few years. (I was actually in charge of facilitating one meeting between Bono and Chuck Swindoll, but it never happened—Chuck said he did not know who he was!)"

It didn't copy the huge pic of Bono!