Many of you probably have already come across this trilogy of posts by Brian McLaren on Becoming Convergent, where he recounts his story and explains where he has been, where he is now and where he is going. If you haven’t already done so, I recommend that you read the posts or download the pdf to read, as you will have a better idea of this Emergent movement. At the least, you will have a better idea of who McLaren really is, contrary to the diatribe that you sometimes read about him around the web, especially the blogosphere. As I said a couple of times before, it looks increasingly to me that this guy just does not deserve the kind of vitriol that has been directed against him from those who like to stand in judgment of others.

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Ron Ferguson, writing in his column in the Herald, on the Intelligent Design/Evolution kerfuffle:

One such myth is the theory of evolution. I happen to believe that as an explanation of the origin of species it is currently the best show in town. It has gaps, but it’s pretty fruitful. It doesn’t of itself invalidate the notion of a creator God; nor does it provide answers to questions about why there is evolution at all.

A Christianity which talks about a loving creator hits huge problems which cannot be glibly answered. Or even answered at all. But evolution fundamentalists have a wee difficulty as well: like Shakespeare, Mozart, beauty and disinterested goodness. Anyone who chooses to believe that these things are simply historical accidents is entitled to their view. Forgive me if I don’t join the queue.

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Most people hitting this site are bloggers themselves. Why do we blog? Probably just because we can! Apparently some people are making serious money blogging and some are even doing this full-time. I just found out that a couple of dudes who know how this is done are offering to teach you Six Figure Blogging.

They are setting up a course for you to learn the ins and outs of making money with your blogs. One of these guys, Darren Rowse made so much money blogging that he recently put a deposit on a house, calling it the house that blogging bought.Cool! So, if you are interested in learning about six-figure blogging, and you would like to sign up for the course, you absolutely must check this out.

Darren by the way also run a site for his “emergent church,” The Living Room, “a life giving space where people connect with the teachings of Jesus in natural and culturally relevant ways”. I resonate with a lot of things this Aussie bloke says.

Last week, I hosted Christian Carnival #82. This week it is David Knowles’ turn at all kinds of time blog. You can find it here. David classified the blogs by topics and interspersed it with quotes culled from various sources. There are quite a few of posts and I haven’t had the time to go through them all, but I submitted the third post in my series of “On Looking Lustfully at a Woman” to the Carnival. I may still have a couple more posts in the series, but haven’t been able to sit down long enough to get it out of me. We shall see. In the meantime, you can go to the Carnival and check out the entries for this week.