Derailed…
May 27, 2006
Posted by Dan Edelen in : Announcements, Blogging Functions : Trackback,
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Sorry, folks. My "Unshackling the American Church" series got derailed by a combination of bad weather, bad timing, bad blog reviews, bad Dan reviews, and just enough overall bad to keep things from flowing. Since I don't normally post enormous installments on weekends, I'll have to continue the series on Monday.
Next week, the series will look at family & community, materialism, the nature of Christian conservatism, and what we as a Church in this country can do to conserve the things God considers worthy of conservation in a day and age when so much is eroding.
If you've read Rod Dreher's book, Crunchy Cons, please feel free to comment on the book here or leave suggestions as to how the ideas in that book expose the shortsightedness of some American Christians.
Till then, have a joyous weekend!
Dan
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Dan, your attitude rocks!!! lost of us are looking forward to reading more in the series, face the attacks with grace, and expect more. Praying
Phil
Dan,
I’ll be watching you!!!
I’m sorry, Dan, you’re having a bad day. Yes, I read Dreher’s book; it was indeed interesting, even if somewhat amorphous in its approach. I would keep an eye on his blog, Crunchy Con. Dreher is undergoing, by his admission, some sort of personal struggle about remaining in the Catholic Church, and he is considering making “a voyage to Byzantium”, so to speak, and is considering switching to the eastern Orthodox side. However, he’s been quite on this issue lately, so I am not sure how things are working out in that regard.
The Pope is Catholic, it gets hot in the summer, and the TrulyReformed(R) insult people who disagree with them, leaving the average reader in no doubt that they’re more religious and understand God better. Right?
Take care & God bless
I really should apologize, somewhat at least, for being so mordant in the combox of your earlier posting, and for my using such ridiculously high-falutin words like “mordacious”. But I admit that I have a weakeness for runaway logophilia. But in my defense let me say, the news anymore is so depressing, the world is growing so dark, and I have my own painful memories of some pretty nasty stuff done to me, that when I see “God Bloggery” once again erupt in its perennial logomachic fisticuffs, it makes me just feel so down and disturbed and distressed that I overreact with logorrheic peevishness.
Oengus, can I steal that phrase? Because “logorrheic peevishness” give me the chills. The good kind, that is.
AlieraKieron: “can I steal that phrase?”
You’re welcome to steal everything. And I suspect you immediately recognized that my pleonastic loquaciousness was entirely self-parodying. In contrast to this, upon meeting me in the “meatspace” (as opposed to “cyberspace”), you’ll find that I am actually a rather taciturn person.