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One of our seminary students has become a friend, Chris Ridgeway. I gave him a new four-set series from IVP by Don Everts and he\u2019s reviewing them for us.
\nEverts, Don. All The Ideas Living in My Head<\/a> $\"\"$ : One Guy\u2019s Musings About Truth<\/em>. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
\nDon Everts has lot of little people living in his head. This might seem less unusual when we realize Everts hails from Boulder, Colorado \u2013 the anything-goes-organic-incense capital of the great Rockies. The author of Jesus With Dirty Feet<\/em> is also a regional campus missionary with InterVarsity and maybe was thinking of his college audience when writing a new series of pomo-length booklets on what amounts to epistemology \u2013 complete with tiny voices.
\nHis introductory title All The Ideas <\/em>gives us a cocktail party tour of the characters that inhabit Evert\u2019s thoughts: Shiny Happy Globalization (strutting and hopeful), Authority of Scripture (old man clutching a leather bible weapon), and Girls Can Be Pretty Darn Interesting (some seem self-explanatory). With Don Miller-like innocence, Everts \u201caw shucks\u201d his way through a set of sometimes parallel, sometimes perpendicular ideas, all with names, accents, and varying intensity of opinion.
\nBut he\u2019s not interested in individual ideas as much as telling us how they interact. Everts is offering what he calls a \u201cthird pallete of words and metaphors to choose from\u201d when it comes to comes to thinking. The first two? Modern and postmodern. The former is caricatured as mathematical bun-heads, the later as goteed experience junkies. I\u2019m a \u201cman without a camp\u201d he asserts \u2013 and under these stereotypical descriptions, it\u2019s no wonder.
\nThere is something helpful to Evert\u2019s framework that reminds us of how thoughts affect us. Permanent Resident Thoughts have gained seniority and deserve to be weighed over new thoughts (even if they\u2019re Sexy Thoughts). Sugar Ideas stroke you by making themselves pleasurable to believe. But Everts third way is simplistic, and perhaps covers his insecurity to judge by shoving things into the passive voice. Other \u201cpopular religious ideas\u201d just \u201ckeep getting kicked out\u201d or \u201clook silly,\u201d he explains. Hmm. Maybe the rest of his series will find more specifics, but as of now it\u2019s about as substantive as that incense.
\n~ Chris Ridgeway<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"