Wednesday Notes

• Scot McKnight, playing with Lesslie Newbigin's paradigm on certainty, in order to explain what postmoderns mean when they claim that we can't have certainty: Therefore, what the Emergent Christian denies is not that there is truth but that our articulation of that truth is always limited.
  
  Scot does a nice job in trying to get everyone on to the same page -- so that they are actually "conversing" rather than talking past one another.
  
  
• The PBS newsmagazine Religion & Ethics Newsweekly will have two segments on "The Emerging Church" included in the programs distributed for Fridays, July 8th and July 15th. Broadcasting of this show tends to be sporadic but there is an online schedule/station locator.
  
  
• If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets his way -- and I suspect he will on this one -- California is going to do a full-court press to force Western energy-providers into an expansion mode -- in a very green way. Even though solar is but a minor component in the strategy the plan is to have a million solar roofs at work in the state. Hopefully it is not too little, too late.


• Researchers from Australia and California have identified a new species of dolphin living in the coastal waters of northern Australia -- the Australian Snubfin Dolphin.
  
  
• I wouldn't pay $1.8 million for a mobile home -- even if it was in Malibu -- and even if I could afford to do so. Just say no -- and the insanity will end.
  
  
• Our good friends at Nazareth Lutheran Church have changed their name to Light of Christ Lutheran Church and last Sunday moved into their new building a couple of blocks north of us on Crowell Road. Their old building is currently in escrow -- being sold to a Spanish speaking Pentecostal congregation. Michael Mechsner is the pastor.


• Note to Kevin (especially) -- check out the electric unicycle. Some people accuse ME of having way too much free time on my hands.