MormergentI look forward to the day! …but thinking about it… we may already have that here… it’s been around for a while, and goes by a different name, called Sunstone.
Were the teachings of Jospeh Smith meant to be taken literally? Was Moroni a literal angel or a guy in the woods? Should Mormons return to their ancient faith, but with more black people? Should their missionaries dress snazzier and what does Tony Jones have to say when he comes to BYU?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Mormergent
Rick, over on his blog Cheaper Than Therapy, takes a humorous look at the ever increasing number of hyphen-mergent groups popping up all the time, like Presbymergent, baptimergent, anglimergent (which I joined), more recently inclusivEmergent, and even queermergent. And he speculates on some others that may soon come along. This one I noted with a good laugh:
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Neal A. Maxwell tried to co-opt C.S. Lewis. The effort fizzled once his cancer became advanced and disappeared altogether when he passed away.
I think you hit the Sunstone matter squarely on the head. I still enjoy reading Dialogue. After all, having grown up LDS, having served a mission, I still need to be connected to my past.
Though I can see the humor in the "ad nauseum" nature of hyphenization of emergent, I was intrigued by your choice of "even queermergent." Not to presume the intent of your choice of the word "even," but just curious; is the emergent tent truly wide enough to include Queer Christians, like myself?
John,
In our emergent cohort there are already two men who are gay. They are Michael and dinhdance listed under this sites contributors. So I would say, Yes, Queer Christians are a part of the emergent conversation, and more specifically they are a part of our local emergent conversation. But I'd also like to add that there are some in our cohort who disagree with them and they also are a part of the emergent conversation.
Are you in the Salt Lake area?
didymus,
Sorry for the delayed response (long story). Yes I live in Salt Lake City, I guess I fit the Angli-mergent label. Grew up LDS, then Evangelical, then agnostic, then New Age, then found my way back to follower of Jesus through ECUSA in 1990, though its been a bit uneasy, not really being much of a sacramentalist. But I love their 3-way source of authority idea, etc. My main source of community right now is a Centering Prayer group and becoming involved with the Community of Hope, training to be a lay Pastoral Care giver. I think I will lurk here for a while and see what y'all're up to. Are you having a March meeting?
John,
Yup, we will be having a meeting March 25th, same place. Let me update that.
what happens at the typical meeting? do you generally pre plan the discussion, or is it more of a free for all? I have to admit I'm curious.
Sarah,
They always seem to be a free for all. Even when we plan the discussion we usually end up talking about all sorts of things theologically related. But something usually rises to the top to discuss more in depth. So basically, it's drink a coffee and talk 7pm to 9, that's all we do for right now.
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