just the rev

the book is so cool you must must read it. Brian McLaren is the author and its a tale of spiritual renewal for those who thought they had given up on church. Its in the shape of a conversation between a pastor (Dan) and his daughter's high school science teacher (Neo). early on in their conversation Neo lists for Dan ten markers of modernity: conquest and control, machines, analysis, secular science, objectivity, critical age, modern nation-sate and organisation, individualism, Protestanism and institutional religion and consumerism. Neo then asks Dan " Can you imagine what happens to the church, the whole Christian enterprise, when it has so thoroughly accommodated to modernity - so much so that it has no idea of any way christianity could exist other than a modern way? In the postmodern world we become postconquest, postmechanistic, postanalytical, postsecular, postobjective, postcritical, postorganisational, postindividualistic, post-Protestant and postconsumerist...Do you see what this means for us as modern western Christians?"

I am desperate to see what this means for me, for us. I am also desperately hungry for Christianity that involves conversation, evangelism and discipleship that is conversation. The back cover of the book talks about a new spirit of Christianity 'where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right".'This seems the place to which I feel drawn.