I, as many do, have the Technorati tags "Emerging" and "Missional" in my feed reader... one thing I have noticed is that the anti-emerging/fundie/KJV only/"there is no such thing as a left wing Christian" (really some say that!) types never seem to talk about the "emerging church" only ever the "Emergent church"... perhaps this is an attempt to perpetuate their handy myth that Brian McLaren is the pastor/pope/cult-leader of the emerging church creating the impression that we are all "under" Emergent village and drool with pavlovian expectation for the next word that passes his lips!? I guess its part of the culture that there has to be leaders who dictate orthodoxy etc. and it's been a part of their "ammunition" for so long it ceased to annoy me years ago... so why post this... well, it's by the way of a tip really... if you see the words "Emergent church" as opposed to "emerging church" or "Emergent village" in a blog post then the chances are it is being posted by the likes of EmergentNo, Slice of Laodicea, Christian Research(sic) Network, etc. so unless you want to re-read the same old... the "Emergent" Church is a bunch of Liberal, Bible abandoning, Yoga meditating, Hell denying, McLaren following, Communist, anti-American, Birkenstock wearing, Soul-patch sporting heretics... you can safely ignore it... I can categorically refute this caricature as I for one have never worn Birkenstocks or had a Soul-patch ;)
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Agreed Mark, anyone who can't be bothered to get that strait, who even seems to be goading, ain't interested in real dilogue.
Posted by: Matt Stone | 25/11/2007 at 10:01
good observation. and if the post is in capital letters, that is Ken Silva.
Posted by: andrew | 25/11/2007 at 10:43
I don't even know what the hell a Soul Patch is.
Posted by: Mike R | 26/11/2007 at 15:32