Mark Scandrette

In the past several weeks as our team has sought to clarify the goal of our work I have found myself reiterating my personal ambition to discover a way of faith in the emerging culture. I don’t talk this way much anymore– having overdosed on talk of cultural shifts and postmodernism 7 or 8 years ago. But lately we have found it helpful to consider the role one’s host culture takes in setting up questions of faith. In my opinion, the emerging world is way beyond new urbanism or a critique of modernist philosophy or theology. The emerging world is a way of seeing our rapidly changing reality– and this includes global economics, communication and technology. I think it is really exciting to be working out faith and life on the edge of the future– and I believe we are invited to push into our questions and experiments about what it means to be faithful to the Way of Jesus in these changing times.