CRN.Info and Analysis

So it seems that the Warren - Murdoch scandal  is dwindling out.  What will Ken $ilva have to write about the Evil Purpose Driven Empire now?  Well, he wrote a new article on the ABC story entitled Rick Warren and Purpose-Driven Strife.  However, when I started reading the article, I felt that I had read all of it before.  It could have been deja vu, but I didn’t think so.  So, I checked the article and noticed the Date:  March 7, 2007.  I went back to CRN and lo and behold… Ken had already written an article on the same story nearly two months ago.  He was pretty crafty about it thought.  The old article linked to page four of the story and the new one is linked to page one.  At least it looks like two stories.
I guess when you are out of material, just go back in the archives and recycle an old one.  Either $ilva was just once again  “led by The Master” to go back and revisit the article, or Ken is trying to keep his short-lived Purpose Driven Scandal alive.

Or so implies Ingrid.  Apparently, not only are there types of music that cannot honor God, but neither can Christian comedians.  With the state of things as they are, how dare Christians ever find time to laugh!

The source of Ingrid’s outrage?  This article in Christianity Today about Christian comedians, which she quotes - I’m guessing to be as condemnation, though it fails to condemn…

Still, many Christian comedians use comedy as a vehicle to reach the unchurched. Anita Renfroe says her shows are almost always designed as “bridge events.” “People can tell their friends, ‘We’re going to have this night of comedy at our church; we’re having three comedians come in, and it’s gonna be off the hook!’ And a friend who would never accompany you to a Bible study will come to a comedy night. It’s incredibly powerful because everybody loves to laugh. It’s universal.”

Now, were this the sum total of what a church was offering, I would definitely question their service - both in orthodoxy and orthopraxy.  However, as a small part of outreach to the local community - and a way to open up conversations on deeper topics - I don’t see the need for all the bluster and fury.

There is a time for everything,
       and a season for every activity under heaven:

 a time to be born and a time to die,
       a time to plant and a time to uproot,

 a time to kill and a time to heal,
       a time to tear down and a time to build,

 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
       a time to mourn and a time to dance,

 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
       a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

 a time to search and a time to give up,
       a time to keep and a time to throw away,

 a time to tear and a time to mend,
       a time to be silent and a time to speak,

 a time to love and a time to hate,
       a time for war and a time for peace.

There is a time for everything, and as long as everything that should be given its time IS given its time, such externals-focused nitpickyness does nothing for the body of Christ.

Ken’s words in this post speak for themselves.  Thanks for the tip, Matt.

• “It seems that since I am the one the Lord used in His providence to break this story in the first place, and I have continued to receive letters of a threatening nature from CUW students, then I need to keep my readers up to speed.”

• “I had fully intended to let this matter rest. However, last night the Master led me across some disturbing information which is causing me to rethink the whole sorry matter.”

• “And Rob Bell is currently involved with bringing God’s people back into the self-righteous religious bondage of the apostate Church of Rome…  Bell is doing this, along with the Emergent Church, through so-called “spiritual disciplines”

This one was RICH!  It made my head hurt with comments!

• “So, apparently we are to believe that there is a “context” for this after all and therefore it becomes ok for these “leaders” to mock the ministry and to blaspheme”

• “Now I guess you can see why God alerted me to show it to you.”

He ends it all with this bribe / ultimatum

• “Being that it all of this is now in the public domain and I have saved a copy of “Virgilicious,” it would seem to be wise to the leadership of CUW to quickly take appropriate action and to publicly discipline these other “leaders,” the two theology professors and their Campus Ministry Leadership Team for producing and encouraging this scandalous skybala.”