I really enjoy the podcasts presented by Emergent Village. I highly recommend the latest podcast with Don Heatley of Vision Community Church. It's a message that many in the emerging conversation will enjoy.

“I find it so sad that this beautiful elegant universe that physicists are discovering is unfamiliar to so many Christians. There is a cruel irony that the reason for this ignorance is that so many Christians are still struggling with the discoveries of science in the 19th century – people like Charles Darwin – that they are not even up to the 20th and 21st century yet. All because their allegiance is to the words (small “w”) and not to the Word of God (capital “W”).”

This echoes my own personal view that Christianity cannot become post-modern until it first becomes modern. I think many people in the emerging conversation mistakenly assume being post-modern means returning to an ancient worldview and rejecting modern science and theology. Actually, being post-modern means we embrace and come to terms with the discoveries of modernity. Once we've done that, then we are free to move past the ancient vs. modern fights that developed as a result of modernity. Now we can rediscover how the deep truths wrapped in our ancient stories, myths, symbols, and rituals can still enrich our lives in a post enlightenment world with the realization that these stories are not literally true but eternally truth-filled.