What????

I read this article, which appeared in the Christian Standard, about the Emerging Church.

So weird -- this is an article published by the Christian group I grew up in talking about the Christian group I became associated with later in life.

Now I'm sitting outside both circles in a way (yet still having roots in both, in a way) and reading this, and feeling so many "conflicting conflicts" that I don't know whether to laugh, cry, nod, or scream. Not sure I can explain it any better than that. Two groups I'm in are trying to understand each other and can't, and I'm "proudly embarrassed" to be part, yet not part, of both. How bizarre.

We're so stupid, all of us. Yet this is who we are, and it's all headed somewhere, someday, in spite of us. And I guess that's all that matters.