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Introducing an Emergent Blogologue

Posted Sep 1, 08:01 AM | 2 comments | by Editor | Link

On August 22, Bill Easum began writing about “The Conversations of Our Times,” in which he wrote, “Prior to the 1980s we lived in what I describe as a National Park world. If you let your imagination run wild with this metaphor you will conjure up many images about the world that was, but for now just think of the world prior to 1980 as a tame, either/or world that played by a set of well known rules. Now change mindsets and think about the world since 1990 as a jungle and let you imagination run wild as you compare the two metaphors, but for now think of the emerging world as a wild and unsafe place of both/and that has no established rules other than the law of the jungle—survival.”

He continued, “In this wild, unruly world, a growing conversation is taking place that no Christian leader can afford to ignore. The players in this conversation are multiplying like rabbits. As we will see in a moment, much of the future of Western Christianity lies at the heart of this conversation. So we had better pay attention.”

Who are the “players” that Easum is talking about? He lists five groups on the following continuum from “far left” (“a radical departure from traditional Christianity”) to “far right” (“closest to third century Christianity”):

Emergent — Incarnational — Organic — Attractional — Reproductive

Many of us in the Emergent Village community were intrigued by Easum’s perspective because Bill Easum is one of the most highly respected Christian futurists in North America.

So we contacted Bill and asked him if he’d be willing to participated in a little “blogologue” (short for “blog dialogue”) with Tony Jones, discussing the questions/issues Bill has raised with Emergent. He quickly responded, Yes, and so here we are.

The blogologue begins today with Bill’s post on “The Emergent Conversations” and will continue throughout the month of September. Please read it and post your responses (answers, questions, etc.) in the comments.

Next Monday (9/8), Tony Jones will post his response, followed by another response from Bill Easum on 9/15, and a final reply from Tony Jones on 9/22. Then I’ll wrap the whole thing up on 9/29 with a summary including some of your comments and feedback on each of the blog posts in the blogologue series—so please be sure to post your thoughts in the comments on these posts!

Here’s the whole schedule:

• September 1 — Introducing an Emergent Blogologue


• September 1 — Blogologue Part 1: Bill Easum


• September 8 — Blogologue Part 2: Tony Jones


• September 15 — Blogologue Part 3: Bill Easum


• September 22 — Blogologue Part 4: Tony Jones


• September 29 — Blogologue Part 5: Wrap-up featuring your comments

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