Great thoughts. I can strongly relate to what you say here and in your about page.

Thanks for the eye opener.

Not to mix metaphors, but when your wandering in the wilderness of our modern (or post-modern, liberal or post-liberal or narrative or emergent or neo-orthodox or whatever) faith, It would be nice to have a companion, someone to double check the map and make sure we’re heading in the right direction.

I think the internet has helped quite a few people find a signpost along the way, but I worry that the connections are so fleeting and unreal that we are missing the essential nature of true, human, interaction.

Derek: Funny you should mention Southern Baptists, because I was born and raised in those circles. I even attended an SBC seminary, so I may have been one of those fundamentalists you’re talking about. With that sort of background, I have found it extremely difficult to break free (old rituals die hard) and even begin to think in a new direction.

I first started the revolutionary swing in my personal theology a few years back at a deep-south bible college. turns out, thats not a good place to talk about the a non-fundamental view of things, let alone the kind of theologies I was discovering. (imagine engaging a room full of southern baptists about the “Death of the Theistic God”) It stung deeply that none of my friends would join me on my quest and that disillusionment left me cold to the faith for a few years. luckily I’ve started to look around at the new movements afoot, and I’m certainly wiser about trying to push others to join me on the search.

It’s still a struggle though. anytime I read a new idea or discover something hidden all I want to do is tell all my friends about it. Most don’t want to hear it. Thank God I met my wife, whose always willing to listen even if she thinks I’m a little nuts.