{"id":547,"date":"2005-08-09T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=547"},"modified":"2005-08-09T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T16:12:47","slug":"emergent_church_and_misunderst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Church and Misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been and is being said about the Emergent Church conversation\/movement and especially Brian McLaren, its primary conversant.  A lot of incorrect things have been written and said, which is typical of critique of any &#8220;new thing.&#8221;  (&#8230; there is nothing new under the sun)  I resonate with a good bit of what is being said within the conversation, especially as they engage Post-modern thought.  (It really doesn&#8217;t matter what I or anyone thinks about Post-moderism &#8211; a whole generation &#8211; and following &#8211; are being raised on it and will be regardless of what we may want or demand!)<br \/>\nTo answer some of his critics, Brian has begun a serious of three essays on an Emergent blog detailing his life.  I think it would be good for anyone interested on new religious\/Christian developments in the U.S., especially as this conversation changes the face of American Christianity (and it will, for good and for bad).<br \/>\nHere is the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/emergent-us.typepad.com\/emergentus\/2005\/08\/brian_mclaren_o.html\">target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>Brian McLaren on &#8220;Becoming Convergent&#8221; &#8211; Part 1 of 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been and is being said about the Emergent Church conversation\/movement and especially Brian McLaren, its primary conversant. A lot of incorrect things have been written and said, which is typical of critique of any &#8220;new thing.&#8221; (&#8230; there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}