THE JOURNEY
I'm finally able to catch up on some of my blog reading. Karl Thienes, who is thoroughly Orthodox in his thinking, is having an interesting discussion on the difference between individual and personal as it relates to the spiritual journey. Link

As I see it "journey" in popular culture has grown more and more individualistic. Whereas historically the church has seen the journey in collective terms, with personal implications -- the complete opposite of contemporary culture (modern or postmodern or otherwise). My beef with a lot of the pop-postmodern thinking, in that it tends to feed the individualism that has surfaced in our era, all the while claiming to be a break through in community. Of course, if you point out that things don't add up you are chastized for missing the paradox because you are too linear in your thinking.