MORE EMERGENT CHURCH STUFF
Terry Mattingly, the God-beat journalist whose outlook isn't very modern, has trouble with the whole post-modern emergent approach to church. One aspect of this movement that troubles me is its emphasis on taking pieces of ancient Christian art and worship and then, blender style, combining them into something that is brand new and very Protestant, yet the people involved in the service think that what they are doing is very old and even catholic, with a small or a large "c."

However close he is to pegging the emergent movement, he misses the point when he identifies a United Methodist congregation which decided to embrace a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe as an example of the trend. That's just the latest expression of blender style main-line religion.