06/18/08
Plain View #88 - May 25, 2008
The Orphanage
Senior Trip
Colorado Springs
Guest Stars
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06/04/08
Plain View #87 - April 30, 2008
Nim's Island
TV
Pretty Woman
Day of Silence
Everything Must Change
Gay Bishop
Hapkido
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05/03/08
Plain View #86 - April 17, 2008
St. Stan's
Social Networking
Like Cats & Dogs
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04/18/08
Plain View #85 - April 11, 2008
Sickness
Marriage Conference
The Sheraton
Fire!
Toilet Papering
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04/13/08
09:54:13 am, Categories: church I originally posted this at Adrian Christian Church.
I'm finishing up a book called The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier by Tony Jones. It's a history and description of the emerging church movement, a movement that's been around for about 10 years. I find myself drawn to the emerging church and its attempt to bring Christ to the postmodern world.
Scattered throughout the book are a number of "dispatches," brief statements that summarize how "emergents" see the world and the church's place in it. I thought it would be fun to address each of these dispatches, give my take on it, and how I see it fitting or not fitting with our situation at ACC.
I would love for people to comment or ask questions about each of these posts. I'm not sure how often they will appear, every week or two hopefully. Also, if anyone is interested in reading this book, let me know and I'll give you my copy when I'm finished.
"Dispatch 1: Emergents find little importance in the discrete differences between the various flavors of Christianity. Instead, they practice a generous orthodoxy that appreciates the contributions of all Christian movements."
A little of my background. I was raised in the Methodist church. I was active in the Sunday school, choir and United Methodist Youth Fellowship. One summer my folks packed 9 or 10 of us youth in the Suburban and drove us to Kentucky for a mission trip. I still get a kick out of seeing students in their UMYF teeshirts as it takes me back to those good old days. In the mean time I was also very active in Abilene's Campus Life group. During my college years I mostly went to Baptist churches, primarily because they started their services later than most. I could usually get myself up and around for a service that started at 10:30. I didn't attend anywhere regularly. I don't remember every attending Sunday school in college, and I never attached myself to any denomination during those years. I did do some worship with Ichthus and Bible study with the Navigators. And there was a summer where I lived and attended worship with a family who were Pentecostals at the time. After K-State my church attendance was even more hit and miss, mostly miss. When MaryEllen and I got married, we spent a long time church hunting. Finally we tried an Episcopal church in Norfolk, Virginia, mostly because it was just down the street from where we lived at the time. It turned out that it was perfect for us. It did as much to bring together two newly married spiritual wanderers as I believe any church could have. We loved both the liturgy and the freedom to ask hard questions about faith that the episcopal community offered. We remained episcopal even after returning to the Midwest. It was just a few years ago, for reasons that had nothing to do with beliefs about baptism, communion, or apostolic succession, that we came to ACC. We came here, and stayed, because of the people.
So Dispatch #1 describes me pretty well. I love ACC. We rock on Sunday morning. We demonstrate the idea of the church family better than any body I've been a part of. And I still love to attend episcopal services. I love the liturgy, the quiet, the corporal prayer of confession, and taking communion from a common cup. I loved hearing Lance Loughridge preach on Good Friday a couple years ago at the Methodist church. It was energetic, and enlivening and poetic, like the preaching of the black church we visited in Virginia years ago. I love the devotion to the scripture that I see in the discussions with my Baptist students. I love the Eastern orthodoxy's embrace of God's mystery, and the history that we all share in the Catholic church.
In my experience, members of ACC are pretty cool in regards other denominations. I've gotten the occasional funny look when I've mentioned my enthusiasm for various flavors of Christianity. And when I once read a passage from the Apocrypha during Sunday school, the silence and the facial expressions around the table were what I would imagine I would get if I brought out a dirty diaper and plopped it down in front of me. But generally when I bring ideas and prayers and traditions from other stripes of Christianity, they are met with enthusiastic interest. I have also heard people passionately share stories of discussing the gospel with coworkers. Some of these coworkers were not religious at all, and some held beliefs that are quite different from traditional Christianity. It it clear in the tellings that these coworkers were loved and respected and often considered brothers in Christ or at least sincere fellow travelers, fellow seekers on the path of life. Before we take communion, we are usually reminded, mostly for any visitors attending I think, that ACC practices open communion. That probably means different things to different people, but I like that I've never heard it defined at ACC. I like the idea that the communion table is Christ's table, not ours. And we are not going to turn away any who Christ would welcome.
04/11/08
Plain View #84 - March 24, 2008
Guitar Hero
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03/24/08
Plain View #83 - March 6, 2008
King of Kong
The Crucible
Peak by Roland Smith
Evolution
Science vs. Ignorance
Internet Cartoon
Lent
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03/11/08
Plain View #82 - February 21, 2008
snow day
bread machine
Jojo's visit
religion
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02/23/08
Plain View #81 - February, 2008
Bufe
Extreme Horton Makeover
Maly sick
Tet postponed
Music's gotta go (?)
Politics - blah blah blah
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sophie's Choice (7 minutes cut for your protection)
New music test run
The missing podcast
VV (my favorite Ukrainian rock band)
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02/10/08
Plain View #80 - January, 2008
Bufe
Tech announcements
Bad Movies: Rashomon, Hard Candy, Super Bad
Wild Hearts Can't be Broken (Burn Notice)
B-Ball
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01/27/08
07:13:03 pm, Categories: media Plain View #79 - Mid January, 2008
Bufe
Mare's B-Day
Worst Movies of the Years
Best Movies of the Year
Voicethread
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01/12/08
Plain View #78 - January 2, 2008
Bufe
Recent Movies
Looking to Tet
Almost Politics
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08/23/07
Plain View #76 - August 4, 2007
Bufe
Clerks II
Mulholland Drive
Bridge collapse - funny story
Political take on the above - corporations are the answer
Ron Paul for Pres.
Beatitudes
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08/04/07
Plain View #75 - July 25, 2007
Bufe
Minneapolis part duex
Vietnam Culture Camp
Sun Yung Shin
Tammy & Rules vs. Love
Jostens
VBS
Hapkido Testing
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07/25/07
07/19/07
Plain View #73 - July 1, 2007
I'm not sure what happened to the previous episode. It seems to be gone. I found one episodes with a few minutes of dead air that was labeled 72 but seems to be a messed up version of 73. I present a cleaned up version of 73 here, but frankly, I don't have time to figure all this out. I'll keep my eye out for it. If anyone downloaded #72 and the show actually matches the notes. I'd like to have a copy of that file. Thanks.
summer school - OVA!
visit from Maly
our new comedy holiday
Mare's epiphany
Will's 102 situps
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07/01/07
Plain View #72 - June 22, 2007 - This show is missing in action. If anyone one has a copy, please send it my way. Thanks.
Bufe
summer school
Hapkido demonstration
The Beatitudes (not our movie)
The triplets
Adult Adoptee List
Maly
New beer
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06/22/07
Plain View #71 - June 14, 2007
Bufe
summer school
doctor doctor
rotten tomatoes
garden
Rabbit's ear
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06/14/07
Plain View #70 - May 29, 2007
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Van Detailing
New Garden
28 Days Later
Senior Trip - Demolition Ball
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05/30/07
Plain View #69 - May 19, 2007
Bufe
International Adoption Group
Vietnam Cafe
Donnie Darko
Sears Cafe
Mare's Tribute to SNL
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05/19/07
Plain View #68 - May 2, 2007
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Working at the paper
Super Size Me (capturing the friedman's, promises, comedian)
School Carnival
Party at the Oates
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05/02/07
Plain View #67 - April 26, 2007
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Fairy tale parody
World View
Kurt Vonnegut
The Crucible (spoiler)
Children of Men
Beaver Trilogy
Bug Book
The Skull Camper
The Paperboys
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04/26/07
04/05/07
Plain View #65 - March 28, 2007
Bufe
2 year anniversary!
Dance Mix
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Emergency Room
Grocery Test #1, #2, #3
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03/23/07
Plain View #64 - March 14, 2007
Bufe
Lent
Bloody Cats
Springfield and Easy's
Edukators redux (women in the ministry)
Oscars
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