DECONSTRUCTING THE CHIC EXPERIENCE
Erik Hanson describes his experience as a counselor at CHIC (the youth convention for high school students in the Evangelical Covenant Church, held every three years) in an article in Killing the Buddha. What's troubling about it is that in reaction to what he perceived to be the emotional manipulation of the event (and I don't think his perception is totally without foundation) he carried out his own manipulation. How often do we use others to work through our own emotional and theological insecurities? Most of us realize that this is generally unhealthy.