Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be

The other day I saw a book entitled “Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be”. The title alone made me want to buy the book. The book is written by two guys, each speaking about postmodern Christianity and the emergent movement within the Christian community. I picked the book up, looked at the description on the back cover, and within about thirty seconds decided to buy it. It’s ironic because two days before I bought the book I had been thinking about this very subject. Needless to say, the book has been one of the most pertinent wake-up calls I’ve experienced in quite a while. The book has shaken me up to look at the whole mindset of post-modernity, how postmodern I am, and the extremes that it is being taken to. It was surprising to find out how postmodern I am in some regards, at the same time as so many aspects of the emergent movement that completely rub the wrong way. The title alone of this blog is incredibly postmodern; a title that I am now thinking of re-titling. But all this to say, I have been writing for the past five days on this subject, each day adding more and more to it, cutting parts of it out, while constantly revising others. So wait just a little bit longer and I should have a very interesting blog coming; something that is actually opposite of anything you’ve ever read of mine before.