Reading my own words in the last post made me nervous. Evangelism scares me. The very word still makes my spine sort of wiggle against the back of my chair. I know this is specific to my odd liberal culture. On NPR, in the New Yorker, and in most of the Episcopal Church “evangelism” isContinueContinue reading “Low Anxiety Evangelism”
Author Archives: Mike Angell
Emergent Worship Letdown: It’s Whoopi Goldberg’s Fault
It’s Whoopi Goldberg’s fault. At least I think it’s partly her fault. In the 1992 movie Sister Act a single scene gave a false hope to the Church. In the movie, Whoopi plays an undercover lounge singer hiding under witness protection in a San Francisco convent. She has a hard time fitting in until sheContinueContinue reading “Emergent Worship Letdown: It’s Whoopi Goldberg’s Fault”
Moving to tumblr
I’ve decided to move my personal updates over to Tumblr, and keep this blog for longer pieces I write and sermons. You can find my musings now at http://christiandifferent.tumblr.com
Getting Organized (summer adventure part 2)
I spent July 8-13 in Chicago for the Industrial Areas Foundation’s Community Organizer National Training. This was phase two of my grant work this summer looking at the intersections of emergence, evangelism, and, you guessed it: community organizing. The conference involved long hours in the fluorescent-lit conference rooms of the Doubletree Hotel, but brought together aContinueContinue reading “Getting Organized (summer adventure part 2)”
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