If you are interested, Ted has a book of free-style poetry titled, "Pages Called Holy." It is about the "joy and sorrow...of different aspects of the changing atmosphere of the religious experience in the twenty-first century." http://www.amazon.com/Pages-Called-Holy-Ted-Voigt...

Yeah, I got the idea out of an introduction to narrative text book that I read. It isn't novel at all but I do think it is helpful for teens who struggle with the elements of story. And it helps them begin to imagine how we can "live into God's story." I think that phrase is lost on some teens because they don't imagine how they are living out a particular story now.

I'm glad that the teens connected with A World Unbroken narrative during the Call Conference. I'm sure their ability to connect the dots has been from you discipling them through the meta-narrative of God for a large part of this year.

Those types of actions are what annoy many adults but those are the types of things that keep me around youth. Their unpredictability gives me hope and scares me to death.

The question is a variation on one that gets asked to Stanley Hauerwas for his ecclesiology which is what I thought I heard in your first comment. You didn't bite so I guess the fun stopped there:) Looking forward to meeting you at NYC 2011 in a couple of weeks. Peace be with you!

-john

I appreciate your kind comments and taking the time to come and read my review. The book was a learning experience for me. Two elements that have continued to challenge me are...

1. Your thick interpretation of consumerism and the effects it has on our formation.
2. Emphasizing James Cote (sorry that I don't know how to put the accents in his name on here:) and Anton Allahar in the book. I've gone on to read a couple of papers by Cote that have challenged my understanding of identity formation. I also hope to read their book later this year.

These are helpful comments and I think that I'm tracking with you. Worship curation might be helpful in understanding the formation of our story inside God's story and beauty in a faith community. That is a helpful theological guide for digging deeper into my question. Thanks!

I'm with you 100% on a kingdom politic in the way of Jesus lived out in the local church or community of Jesus followers. I've said the same in other places but instead of focusing on the KoG I focus on the mission of God (MoG) which is God's work of extending and restoring the KoG (the way of God where all creation thrives by following the will of God). http://bit.ly/iUIUMm

Here is a little push back to your concern for fun:)...If you promote a sectarian ecclesiology (focus on the community of faith's "actions and worship") then how will you ever be able to discern if your politic is Christian or simply some version of a democratic ideology dressed up in Christianesse?

Thanks for your reply Tony!

If I'm reading your comment correctly you're promoting the educational goal of apologetics. You use words like "show" and "realizing" which I'm correlating with "teach" and "understand." Is that correct?

How are you applying those text (Gen 1-2; Rev 21-22; Romans 1) in this context? Are these guidelines for our understanding of apologetics or are you wanting to say that they provide the telos of apologetics?

You're not alone man.
Let's step out in repentance and lead a generation of students whose imaginations are immersed in God and God's story!

I'll never be Karl Barth.