PYM Day 3

Are you a cultural anthropologist? You should be. What is culture? Tony defines it as how human beings cultivate and symbolically organize their experiences. So does this mean all words and symbols are culturally constructed? If every media tells a story and as cultural anthropologist we are attempting to read the story what does it say? How do we then move from cultural anthropology to theology? How does our story demonstrate are theology?

PYM Day 2

Today was a rough day, I woke up with a headache and it hung around all day. When you are in a discussion concerning the topic of philosophy and theology your brain hurting is not a good thing. However, here are is some of the topics that came up that I have not contemplated about or still attempting to process. The first item is that there is no reality without language. The only way we know the store is because of the media. This one is big and I am processing what this means and coming to terms with this hypothesis. The second item is one that I have been thinking about for some time just not maybe put in these terms, am I in ministry to/for postmodern’s, with postmodern’s, or as a postmodern. The scene from the Matrix where Nero is deciding to take the red pill is where I find myself. However, unlike Nero the consequences of his actions only affected him. While I think I am ready to swallow the pill I am still assessing what ramifications of that action will have on my ministry and my family.

Da Bears

The Bears are going to the Super Bowl!!!! We have waited a long time for this day to return to the wind city. Lets go Bears!!!!!

Postmodernism in Youth Ministry Day 1

Postmodernism in Youth Ministry at Olivet Nazarene University with Tony Jones started today (Monday Jan. 22) and at the encouragement of some friends I will attempt to post some thoughts of each day’s class. Today we focused on Theology and Philosophy and the relation between the two. One question that came up at the end of the day that led to some very interesting debate, “What is on the table?” Is there anything that we are not willing put on the table of discussion? If we put everything on the table will the table collapse?