Touchstone Magazine has on its website an interesting book review of "Faith of My Fathers: Conversations with Three Generations of Pastors About Church, Ministry, and Culture" by Chris Seay. Actually, to call it is more of a takedown than a review, but given some of the examples cited in the review it was deserved. Seay is the pastor of an "emergent" church who has published an ongoing dialog with his father and grandfathers who are also pastors. I will let you read the article for yourself instead of describing it in-depth, but am compelled to note that the review shows that self-righteousness and arrogance can emerge in this new movement.
On the same website but on a different topic, there is also a fun article by William McClay, a Humanities Chair at U of Tennessee, about how trying to be "unique" and "liberated from social conventions"--to show I am the smartest or must urbane person in the room--has become a new social convention. Well worth reading. By the way, I just subscribed to the magazine.
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