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    Fortuitous Bouncing

    http://manofdepravity.com/2008/05/23/fortuitous-bouncing-22/
    104 days ago in man.of.depravity · Authority: 72

    Arriving from an air mattress in a garage in La Mirada, California. Sorry if I’m off my game a little. American Idol Thought- Thank you America. You do have taste in music. Here is a cool blog on behind the scenes stuff from finale week. Cool post on raising hands in worship. Jenni on relevance in worship. Michael Kruse on why the emergent chicken crossed the road. Very funny. Someone has the fortitude to call out Bush on his Nazi appeaser comment. Although, the calling out is warranted, he may go a bit far. Tony Jones on the trickle down effect of communication and teaching. Awesome quote from a blog I love reading everyday. Sweeps The Office- It was just ok for me (I sound like Randy Jackson). Survivor- Amanda was, once again, the best player in the game. Yet she has absolutely no clue how to get people to vote for her to win. Really frustrating to watch. Idol- Duh, it was awesome. Although the Wednesday night show was a little boring. Very cool that OneRepublic got on though. The Bachelor- Rose cried. And now she is even more excited for The Bachelorette which started last Monday. Have a great extended weekend. I will miss my Sunset family this weekend for sure.

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    The Beginning of the Worker-Scholar

    http://chadtalkstostrangers.com/?p=37
    113 days ago in chad talks to strangers · Authority: 10

    Tony Jones’ post on the end of trickle-down education emphasizes the need for quality theology written at a populist level. It reminded me of a theory that has been rattlin’ around in my head for a couple of years now that came from the mind of a mostly unknown self-taught (Tony likes to use fancy words like autodidact) theologian from early last century who inspired Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Peter Maurin envisioned communities of scholar-workers and worker-scholars. These farming communities endeavor to foster dialogue in roundtable discussions. It’s sort of like cross-disciplinary open sourcing. When elitist thinkers and blue collar types come together to share their experiences and work together to live in community, becoming self-sufficient and empowering one another, the worker-scholar is born. The worker becomes a scholar and the scholar becomes a worker, and a sacred vocation emerges, which is God’s vision for humanity. In monastic communities, groups of people live a common life, practice academic and spiritual disciplines, and emphasize labor as a virtue. So, until scholar-types, present company included I guess, step away from their keyboards, and learn a little about the work of the common folk, I think there will always be a level of elitism and trickling down in theology, populist or otherwise. This is happening in some new monastic communities, but I know it’s not a reality for a whole lot of people. I just like to throw out wild-haired ideas. ShareThis

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    The End of Trickle-Down Education « Tony Jones

    http://emmausnetwork.org/jason/?p=155
    114 days ago in Sailor and a Scholar I might need to get underway again soon… · Authority: 2

    The End of Trickle-Down Education « Tony Jones I have tried to say something along these lines for the last few years. As I read Brian McLaren - I chuckle.  He popularizes writers like NT Wright, Leslie Newbiggin, and Michael Polanyi.  There are several more that peak out from the pages of his writing.  As Tony puts it, they write for the University presses though.  Brian’s books get overpublished and it looks like he is coming up with “new” ideas.  Therefore, he is a “heretic.”  Meanwhile, locked away in a Seminary library, I am forced to read Newbiggins books and I have these “lightbulb” moments in my first year of seminary.  “Wait a minute!”  McLaren is saying nothing new in “A New Kind Of CHRISTIAN!” He is just making Newbiggin and C.S. Lewis sound really cool! What is this all about? What I began to realize is that the reformed theologians just don’t like Newbiggin or C. S. Lewis that much.