I’m finally getting round to posting about our time Monday evening with Up/rooted, an emergent cohort and monthly gathering of emerging Christians in the Chicagoland area. Others have posted their summaries (Helen, John, Mike [coming]) of the conversation, but I wanted to add my own reflections.
Second, most importantly we met lots of folks and made new friends — we had read lots of blogs and lots of things about these folks but had not been to the gathering — but we met the Clawsons and Nanette Sawyer and Helen and John Armstrong and really I can’t name them all.
Third, I led a conversation about The Real Mary, and the conversation was very stimulating to me — and by and large I think we were near the same page. As you know, I think the Magnificat is the secret to understanding Mary, and I think we can only be fair to Mary’s Magnificat if we understand it as a social protest of Herod the Great’s unjust structures and policies. So, I see it as a protest. The question of the day came from Helen at the back, which I summarize in this way: What happens if we have the kind of fire in our eyes that Mary had and have such fire in evangelical churches?
What do you think?