Archive for February 15th, 2004
The only few Malaysians I regularly check on are people who were or are with HELP College and those who visit this blog *grin*. I guess it’s only right to have a serious look at other fellow Malaysians so I guess I’ll start here
This is an Asian online Journal introduced to me by Kiffer. Maybe this will help me see how the Asians who put their thoughts on line think (interesting though the location a majority of at least the 1st 20-30 top bloggers mentioned are not in Asia). The rest of the work will be good old fashioned reading and face to face talks.
While thinking about Emergent & Emerging (thanks to Maggi Dawn for that distinction!) I googled and came across this paper by on Emergent Democracy (which I think helps me see things from a different angle and a bigger picture)
I haven’t sat down to seriously put some thoughts on this yet from where I come from unless the one in the Emergent UK group blog is a try or warm up. But reading some issues brought up by some “sensitive” brothers helps and will sharpen what’s on my mind (I decided to put some comments for them):
“where are the voices of our brothers and sisters following Jesus in the developing world? How can we best represent them if they in fact need representation, in this Emerging Church Debate?” ~ From Last one for the day I swear…
“the latin/african church, i suspect, is fairly indiginous to its culture(s), and in that sense it has been emerging (in steve.taylor’s sense of the word) for many years. they are the emergent forerunners.” (by the Baldman)
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