A roadtrip, a denouncing, and Volf.

I found some thought-provoking things this week…

Firstly, Tony Jones goes on a roadtrip with a trucker:

On the other side, a view into the world of those who aren’t so enchanted with the emerging church:

And finally, Miroslav Volf (Of “Exclusion and Embrace” fame) on the relation between church and culture: http://www.npcts.edu/sem/exauditu/papers/volf.html

To draw these three items together, let me just say that I agree with Volf’s approach to the modern / postmodern debate: he critiques both sides. Instead of reducing postmodern thought to simply “the rejection of universal truth” and safely disposing of the caricature, in his writing he engages with philosophers such as Nietzsche and Lyotard and acknowledges both what they get right and where they fall short. Concerning Lyotard, for instance, he states “I am more persuaded by his critique than by his proposal…”