Oops! Been a while

I haven't written for a while. Work got busy, etc., etc., etc. I have been thinking, however. I'm always thinking. I have what's called a melancholy personality (as opposed to sanguine, choleric, or phlegmatic) which means I think things to death. I've been thinking, specifically, about what I like and don't like about the whole emergent conversation.

I like:

the emphasis on being missional
the emphasis on being incarnational
the emphasis on social justice
the emphasis on being and doing community
the dialogue

I don't like:

the lack of diversity
the tendency toward self-righteousness
the substitution of a new "in" vocabulary for another
the tendency toward relativism.