In my experience, the CRC approaches “diversity” from the position of Boomer, Dutch immigrants’ children who grew up in a sheltered Grand Rapids private school environment. They approach it with a sense of romance, and a hope that (and this covers a LOT of GR mindset) the high-minded intellectual unbelievers they rub elbows with will finally invite them to tea and reference them in Sojourners articles. They've been wrestling with it poorly for a while, and I believe that they’ve hopped on the intersectionality bus to help them go places they can't imagine well on their own. We will need to restaff (or, eliminate a lot of) the Bureaucracy with people who understand humanity biblically instead of intersectionally/culturally Marxist to fix this issue.
I forgot all about the Emerging Church. I do remember it being very trendy 15+ years ago, but then I started going to the Episcopal Church and kind of left evangelicalism behind for a while. Can you fill me in on why it failed?
I don't know how much there is to fill you in on. My short summary is that wolves in sheep's clothing can only hide for so long before their true colors show through. For much of the Emergent Church, their lack of confidence in, and ordering by, the Word of God was displayed (which was their undoing).
In my experience, the CRC approaches “diversity” from the position of Boomer, Dutch immigrants’ children who grew up in a sheltered Grand Rapids private school environment. They approach it with a sense of romance, and a hope that (and this covers a LOT of GR mindset) the high-minded intellectual unbelievers they rub elbows with will finally invite them to tea and reference them in Sojourners articles. They've been wrestling with it poorly for a while, and I believe that they’ve hopped on the intersectionality bus to help them go places they can't imagine well on their own. We will need to restaff (or, eliminate a lot of) the Bureaucracy with people who understand humanity biblically instead of intersectionally/culturally Marxist to fix this issue.
The first section you quoted sounds a lot like the language of the now failed Emerging Church fade from two decades ago.
I forgot all about the Emerging Church. I do remember it being very trendy 15+ years ago, but then I started going to the Episcopal Church and kind of left evangelicalism behind for a while. Can you fill me in on why it failed?
I don't know how much there is to fill you in on. My short summary is that wolves in sheep's clothing can only hide for so long before their true colors show through. For much of the Emergent Church, their lack of confidence in, and ordering by, the Word of God was displayed (which was their undoing).