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THE GREAT EMERGENCE A Book

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     For summer reading I have several books to recommend. Today, (others later) THE GREAT EMERGENCE, by Phyllis Tickle.

     The subtitle is "How Christianity is Changing and Why." This will not answer all of your questions, nor cover all of the ground--your experience and observation of "Christianity" (an elusive thing, a word not denoting anything sufficiently coherent to be useful in most situations) may be quite different.

      But the book will stimulate your thinking. Tickle argues that about every 500 years the church goes through major changes, and that we are at a 500 year mark now. She writes: "The Right Reverend Mark Dyer, an Anglican bishop known for his wit as well as his wisdom, famously observes from time to time that the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty-first-century Christians in North America is first to understand that about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale. And, he goes on to say, we are living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales."

     If there is any truth at all in this, what do you think is being sold and bought in this rummage sale?

John Stoner jstoner@ecapc.org

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