Is it really a movement? October 17, 2007
Posted by Zack in Missouri | write a comment
This is really interesting. Check out this post by Mark Dixon, an on-fire-for-Jesus radical Christian in California, who is reading my blog and is having trouble believing that the movement I’ve been talking up can be as big and energetic as I’ve been describing:
Such a sudden about-face among any significant number of evangelicals seems unlikely to me. Also, I am cynical and wary of another trick by the Christian Right to placate us into letting our guard down. But what if it’s true? If you have personal knowledge that such a movement is in fact taking place, write me at buzzbin [at] unworthymagazine [dot] org with the details.
…I try to picture the Republican-voting, SUV-driving soccer moms and NASCAR dads of California’s suburban megachurches making such a massive reversal in their belief system, and I simply can’t. But what if that’s just my own prejudice talking? What if it is true? I wonder…
And this isn’t the first time I’ve spread the news to an incredulous progressive Christian about their own movement. It happened just the other night when we were staying with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Southern Missouri. They have been resisting the empire their whole lives. It was like I was delivering news of a miraculous reversal at the front as I told them about Shane Claiborn’s litany against the empire at Catalyst. Sister Cynthia said, “You’re giving me goose bumps.”
It reminds me of when I was studying in China, a very long time ago, and found my self occasionally translating between Hong Kong people who couldn’t speak Mandarin and mainland Chinese people who couldn’t speak English. They were so close to each other but, very randomly, an outsider was needed to make the connection.
Tag: Mark Dixon
