kendra is a new acquaintance from ft. collins, colo ... she finds herself in a lutheran context, specifically the ELCA. she attended the emergence 2007 conference last weekend, and
i was able to introduce her both to makeesha, an emergent blogger also from ft. collins, and to tim snyder, a friend from seguin, texas who is radically rethinking lutheran ecclesiology (actually, his scope is broader than mere denominationalism).
in any case, kendra sagely reflects on the conference here.
I like her point of view and agree with her critique:
"… I feel that some of these communities haven't made it very far. They still live in the attics and basements of evangelicalism, like a pouting teenager, wanting to be heard, wanting also to piss off old Gran-dad whenever the opportunity arises."
Speaking of Makeesha, she recently finished her Emergent Gathering posts:
Part 1 How I lost at Pac-Man and defeated big Bible hill
Part 2 Sprouted bagels, knit caps and communities called Seven
Part 3 Tony Jones is a real person…I think
Part 4 Emergent incarnates hope and dangerous dreams
Part 5 Art, Incarnation, and Artifact
I have a friend that spent way to much time documenting those "trust jesus" tags that are all over the south. He actually met the guy that claimed to do them one night at a waffle house in jackson, mississippi
Posted by: chad | Sunday, November 04, 2007 at 09:44 PM