Postmodern Christianity - Summer - Part 2 of 8

Seventy-one…that’s how many days my summer was. And not until seven days prior to leaving for college do I find any means to spiritual progress prior to heading off for college. I work at a Christian bookstore (kind of an accident that I even have that job) on the weekends, and this past weekend I came across a book that the title immediately grabbed my attention: “Why we’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be”. The majority of that “spiritual maturing” during Act II and the preceding juggling act of Act III came in the form of reading mounds of books as well as deep discussion; reading books from authors like Rob Bell (Velvet Elvis and Sex God), Brian McLaren (A New Kind of Christian, The Story We Find Ourselves In, The Final Word and the Word After That, and A Generous Orthodoxy), Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz and To Own A Dragon), Erwin McManus (Uprising and The Barbarian Way), and Shane Claiborne (An Irresistible Revolution). Although I did not know it to the extent that I do now, all of these authors/books have a recurring theme: postmodern/emergent Christianity. It’s not until I started reading “Why We’re Not Emergent” that I realize how postmodern those books were and how postmodern I had become through reading/studying them. My “Sin as long as it’s amongst believers” blog entry was a precursor to my current discussion of postmodern Christianity without me even realizing it.