{"id":6874,"date":"2009-05-03T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/the-emergent-church-making-new-blunders-for-a-new-generation\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:00:30","slug":"the-emergent-church-making-new-blunders-for-a-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/the-emergent-church-making-new-blunders-for-a-new-generation.html","title":{"rendered":"The Emergent Church: Making New Blunders for a New Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>Here\u2019s a story about trendy Emergents laboring to conform the Church to the Twitter Generation.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Prophet Chesterton remarks that revolutionaries generally can spot what\u2019s wrong with the previous generation. What they have a harder time doing is knowing what\u2019s right. Emergents have some very salient critiques of older Evangelical practice and piety. Some of them appear to be using that knowledge to create forms of spirituality even shallower and more trend-driven than their parents.<\/p>\n