Comments on: You Might Be Emergent If…

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:32:28 +0000

Does that mean when fully emerged, Matt will be an ubermensch or an ubermodel? How emergent does it make one if they know Derrida, but think most of the emergent writers seem to be playing games with their postmodernity?

By: Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:18:31 +0000

I don’t know what that means anymore than emergent, but anything with “uber” in it sounds cool.

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:58:53 +0000

Matt:

In my book, you are ubermergent

By: Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:59:01 +0000

Well, I think I can safely say I’m not emergent. I fit about the same number as Michaela (although not necessarily the same ones). I don’t know what that makes me (maybe divergent?).

By: Michaela

Michaela — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:56:58 +0000

WOW. I totally forgot about cake walks. We had them every year at our little Christian school “fun fair”.

*Cues Memories*

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:14:26 +0000

Also, bewareâ€¦â€cakeâ€ has a special meaning to the RMFO folk who visit here, right Geof?

RIGHT! [I still blame Trey.]

As for cakewalks, I’ve never seen one in the South, but we did them yearly in the elementary school I attended in Ohio. [I want to say that we did them as a part of our "Winter Holidays" festivities.]

[I will leave the jokes about giving cake to small children as an exercise for the demented RF user.]

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:21:48 +0000

Jason:

I’d never heard of a cake walk until I moved to the south…where they actually do such things.

Also, beware…”cake” has a special meaning to the RMFO folk who visit here, right Geof?

By: jason

jason — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:30:52 +0000

I’m closer than I thought, but my worship services don’t look like an outdoor cake walk (if anyone remembers the cake walk from the school carnival . . . Buehler? . . . Buehler?)

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:34:04 +0000

OK…you squeak by. But you’ll have to sit in the back, and if you snicker just once at the “spontaneous worshp art,” you’re history.

By: Michaela

Michaela — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:33:09 +0000

Hahahaa….

Well let’s see….

I *do* have that tattoo (very similar!)….but it’s not on my leg, so it’s all good.

I don’t know whether I’m American or British, but both have me in trouble there…

I don’t have a Mac….

I knew 7 of the 9 names….(gulp)

I LOVE Guinness…but not over here….

I have been found reading The Divine Conspiracy, Travelling Mercies, And Beyond Foundationalism (and I’ve discussed, but only read parts of the others…and I’ve read other Foster and Wright books…)

I do cuss sometimes…

I listen to both the U2 and Crowder albums (and other Stevens albums)…

I don’t have an iPod….

The negative and positive words, I almost entirely flip around (I love Carson and innerrancy and absolute truth)…

I would never have a Christian Liberal sticker….

I drive a 92 Blazer….not whatever fancy car that one is….

Those pictures aren’t me and my worship services don’t look like that….

I have no idea what a “Prayer Lamp” is….

So that’s my score. Am I still okay?