Emerging Africa

Will be silent for a while. Chasing thesis deadline. Carl knows.

Am I emergent if I am just a tiny bit uncomfortable with TBN (its too cool and I feel left out) and especially with all those TBN “Bible” prophecy guys who are so obviously delighted to be living in dose days when God will come and wipe all dem Russians and Arabs? By the way, the millions of Arabs on this planet are all Semites (I think. Is that right?) And so: am I the only one to spot some form of anti-Semitism in the desire to have dem wiped in the first place? I was kind of hoping God would save them all too. What do the emergent folk think about that?

For some time now I have not read blogs. I have been rather irritated by “all those blogger types” (as I labelled them in my mind) who imagine that they have something worthwhile or new to say and which thing everyone else would miss unless they pointed it out to them. I hear the from-the-hip (no pun intended) musings of sincere guys described as a “white-male-philosophical-conversation" (hyphens and all) and I proudly wonder who should be embarrassed: philosophy, white males or true conversationalists. I now realise that this attitude is a form of pride, so I read blogs again (when I have some time to do so). I am also going to try harder not to be one of those “strong silent type” pastors (who deliberately do not post on sites like this one).

For those interested in the so-called New Perspective on Paul (NPP) spearheaded, in the English speaking world, by Tom Wright, check out John Piper's soon to be published response to Tom Wright (entitled The Future of Justification). D.A. Carson (I know, I know!