jen lemen has another great post on her blog that relates to the conversation about how emergent conversation relates to women and people of color. She is suggesting correctly that there needs to be more than just inclusion of women (and I add people of color) in the conversation. We need to move beyond inclusion (which can just become tokenism) toward mutuality. She point out that at the heart of mutuality is reconciliation and reconciliation requires us to look honestly at the systems that create insiders and outsiders.
as i heard jay pankratz of sunrise church the church is called to be something more than just tolerant.
so right. that’s why I think the scriptures talk about mutuality and reconciliation and not inclusion.
without tackling this issue the emerging church may go the way of the other homogeneous expressions of the church.
holler back y’all
