Charmaine Yoest is Hiring

And now for a public service announcement.  My good friend Charmaine Yoest is hiring and I thought I would pass the info along to those of you who read my blog.

Charmaine works for the Family Research Council in Washington DC and is looking to fill the following positions:

• Director of Media Relations
• Manager of Audio and Video Production
• Web Editor

You can find some job descriptions here at the blog of Jack Yoest.

And, for all of you bloggers she wanted me to pass on that she is especially interested in talking to blog readers and writers, they are on the cutting edge of what she wants.

And, if you move here from out of town there's a great church nearby with a wonderful pastor that I would be happy to tell you about.

Comments

[Jack Yoest]

Pastor David, thanks for alerting your vast, learned readership.

Goodness, we may have to start tithing...

Thanks again,

Jack (and Charmaine)

[Former Corn Chuckin' Champ]

And don't forget, great preaching!

[Josh Lowery]

Sir

I came across your blog when searching for evangelical (in the traditional sense, not the "McClaren" sense) responses to the Emergent Church movement. I had a friend who tried to turn me on to McClaren a few years ago, and I finally bought "A Generous Orthodoxy" recently. The long subtitle fascinated me.

First, let me say that I perused your blog and was quite intrigued and encouraged by your insights on many things, and I've subsequently added a link to your blog on my own. My reason for posting this comment is to tell you that I have had some difficulty in committing to McClaren's "Orthodoxy." The book is laden with multiple introductions and prefaces and by the time I finally got to the first chapter, I was so weary of hearing about how "taboo" and "controversial" McClaren viewed his book to be that I had to put it down for a while. That was about nine months ago. Since then, I've picked it up two or three times, each time becoming more disappointed than the first at how unscholarly and poorly thought out it seems to be. My question, then, is this: in your experience interacting with the "doctrines" of the emergent church, would you say that the movement is big enough and relevent enough to warrant my finishing the book?

[David Wayne]

FCCC - you are cracking me up.

Josh - that's a good question. I have not finished the book myself. If you want to understand a bit more of what emergent is about then it is probably worthwhile since emergent is the hottest thing going today. But other than that I wouldn't feel any compulsion. BTW - I have a couple of posts before this one on the emergent movement - I'm glad to interact with you about it but I do try to keep the comments on the topic of the post, so if you want to jump in on one of those you can get into an in-depth discussion on emergent.

Jack - indeed I have a very learned readership and the good news is that I can let you in on the ground floor of a new program at the church - we call it the tithe-plus program.

[pavel/addai]

"My question, then, is this: in your experience interacting with the "doctrines" of the emergent church, would you say that the movement is big enough and relevent enough to warrant my finishing the book?"

Well I was formerly involved with an online board that was centered around pomo/emergent, for almost 4 years. My advice would be to finish the book. Not so much to gain some personal insight for yourself, because quite frankly my reaction to the material is very similar to the one you shared. But rather to be familiar with a movement in American and European Christianity that is growing and gaining influence.

So finish it just to be informed. And if you are like me where you find yourself against much what goes on, at some time people will ask you "You say all these things about Emergent but have you really read any of Brian's books?" If you can say yes, that does help you. If you say "no". You will be immediately dismissed as having an uninformed opinion, and responding to all the "negative stereotypes", and "Character assination" that is out on the web.

So anyway finish the book.