Ted and Oprah.

Because of the rain in KY, they sent everyone in the office home early yesterday. When i got home i started making dinner and turned the tv on and there was Ted Haggard on Oprah. This paragraph alone has enough material for a week of posts.

Filed under: Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Postmodernism, Psychology, church , Modernism, Oprah, Postmodernism, Ted Haggard

Truth is not a good idea.

Christians and philosophers alike have treated truth as a good idea- as something to be attained. A mental enlightenment. Postmodernism, of course, rejects this idea of truth- of absolute truth, specifically- and for good reason. Truth, as knowledge, is the scholar’s god- but not much good for the rest of us. Postmodernity, by rejecting the compartmentalization of life, helps us see the flaws of this pursuit of truth.

Filed under: Church History, Integral, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Postmodernism, Theology , aristotle

Compartments.

Life, as rediscovered, is not made of separate, autonomous pieces. Life is an integrated existence of descernable aspects. Thanks to modernity, we have gone on thinking that life is safely compartmentalized; that our life is made up of vaccum-sealed, water-tight compartments we can attend to individually and that we control the flow between them.

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Pomo, Postmodernism, Theology

The Sawmill of Modernity.

In the ongoing modernity vs. postmodernity debate, score one for PMism. The wholesale rejection of categories actually leads to some good things. Refusing to accept a categorized life is one of those good things. Postmodernity is, in part, rediscovering the integrated life- no longer accepting that one can successfully have a spiritual life apart from a secular life or maintain sanity while disconnecting deeply connected aspects of life.

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Postmodernism