Remonstrans

Archives for: March 2010, 01

05:49:46 am, by dissidens

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Categories: Old Main

Brian McLaren continues to develop his views of the entire Christian religion with the conspicuous erudition we take for granted in Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, and Mr. Bean—assuming those last two are not the same person. Christianity Today has published a review by Scot McKnight, and I do think you should make the time to read it. You should also sample the reaction of CT readers. It's not that McLaren has said anything helpful or that CT is offering anything perceptive, but I don't think we should overlook any attempt Evangelicals make at recognizing blatant heresy.

Up in the attic of the Emergent Funhouse Adele Sakler tries to make some pomes. Adele is an admittedly distraught woman of perverted views, deviant sexual practices and peevish attitudes. I won't link to her entire collection (you can scroll through a number of her unconsecrated refrains), but I will point you toward something she considers an "acrostic poem"—and I guess it could, given the state of Emergent literacy, be considered acrostic. Or it could also be that she recently discovered the word and still doesn't realize that the strength of an acrostic poem lies in recognizable spellings. All rights have been reserved, but if you want to know why, you'll have to ask her.

And in closely related news, Maranatha Baptist Bible College promises to make good on its threat to install its fifth president on 18 March. Our editorial staff met together with the landscaping crew to determine whether MBBC chose March 18 in order to commemorate the First Lateran Council in 1123, the burning at the stake of 39 Knights Templar in 1314, or the opening of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in 1861. I suggested that with the word Baptist figuring in the school's name, Thursday might have been chosen because Spurgeon was himself a Baptist. It pains me to tell our readers that my suggestion was laughed to scorn. "Have you ever," I was asked amidst howls and jeers, "ever signed a book on Baptist history out of the library?" I tried to put forward a feeble case but it was hopeless as the meeting turned into a melée of laughter, table-pounding, hooting and head-patting.