CRN.Info and Analysis

So, I was sitting around drinking coffee at my local church/brewery (brurchery?)simultaneously preparing the movie clip for the coming week’s sermon (which I had plenty of time to do what with cancelling VBS) and listening to the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” (in celebration of Standard Publishing’s new curriculum featuring the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Eagles) when I came across this, well, less than discerning post about the Episcopal priestess who claimed to be both Muslim and Christian. Now, you’d think what with the big fuss that was made over this before the news that she’s been suspended for a year by her church would bring great rejoicing. Sadly, it was just another occasion for McLaren bashing.

Brian McLaren and Tony Jones are probably deeply saddened by this development as it is a clear slap in the face of Post-Modern thinking.

What? Can someone who has managed to keep up with their mountain goat style of logic leaping fill me in here? How do we get from a main line church to two emergent leaders (or at least one leader, and one formerly influential leader in the case of McLaren)? And more importantly what does either have to do with this particular issue? The included link says nothing about McLaren or Jones, and after searching google (both the news and the normal search) I couldn’t find any connection. In fact, the only connections I could find were blogs that were simultaneously advertising books by McLaren and Jones and condemning this woman’s obviously contradictory stands.

This is getting to the point of paranoia. Did the “editor” eat some brownies of questionable origin? Is CRN.com actually a site based on ironic parody that I don’t get? Someone, please help!