Through the Looking Glass today:
Alan Creech writes that while Christian books, seminars and weblogs can be useful, “What I don’t think is healthy, though, is not realizing that God has provided for us, by His Holy Spirit, in the Community of the Faith, in our local and regional contexts, all that we really need in order to be fully developed as Human Beings like Jesus.”
Emergent US considers an “Emerging Theologians” series to highlight work by “currently unpublished” authors. Interesting. Are bloggers who read alot but never went to seminary and have published in other fields eligble, I wonder?
Jason Clark writes about how his personal struggles with depression and anxiety led him to the Emergent movement and says “theology saved my faith.” I wonder how many other evangelicals or former evangelicals have been drawn to deep study of theology, and perhaps to the Emergent movement, through wrestling with the black dog of depression. Jason’s story resonated with me in so many ways. Someday, maybe soon, I’ll post about my own fights with panic and the black dog.