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Date: 22 July 2005 07:00:18
Thanks to Jason for linking to this interview with Brian Mclaren .
It's an interesting article in its own right which highlights why/ how in a number of areas stuff is not black and white and there is not always a shared understanding of things. It is also useful because it gives some history to the US emerging church (although I am wary of any one group claiming ownership or the original meeting of this type of thing).
This kind of thing is useful, as a UK reader, because although we are as a country culturally quite different when it comes to religion it tends to be US models of church and evangelism, etc, etc that are often taken on board as models in the UK. As such it is useful to know where the ideas are coming from and the context in which they were produced.
There is alot of ground covered in the interview (it took 10 pages to print out the print friendly version), but it is important ground if you want to try and make sense of the debates which are increasingly filtering downwards / sideways in the church (general) about postmodernity, identity and connection with contempory culture. Basically this article helps, in someway, to frame part of the debate going on.