a brother of another mother

Ok, this is so cool.

There's this Anglican reverend who helps merchant marine sailors in the port of Singapore. It's not just the "spiritual" stuff, either. He brings them cash cards and cell phones and food and posts from their home ports. He basically tries to make their lives a little easier for the few days that they're in Singapore, short of bringing them drugs, booze or women. He actually goes out to the boats to do his work, which is almost unheard of these days. And, he serves sailors of all faiths, without discrimination or preference.

I read about this ministry in a Wall Street Journal article a few weeks ago. I showed it to my Crew Chief and said, "this guy's been emergent for decades without even knowing it."

Check it out:

www.flyingangel.org.sg/floaMTSRoleInMaritimeCommunity.htm

Believing in the Right Way

"Here I picture the emerging community as a significant part of a wider religious movement which rejects both absolutism and relativism as idolatrous positions which hide their human origins in the modern myth of pure reason. Instead of following the Greek-influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief,…the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way—that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner. The reversal from 'right belief' to 'believing in the right way' is in no way a move to some binary opposite of the first (for the opposite of right belief is simply wrong belief); rather, it is a way of transcending the binary altogether. Thus orthodoxy is not longer (mis)understood as opposite of heresy but rather is understood as a term that signals a way of being in the world rather than a means of believing things about the world."

from "How (not) to speak of God" by Peter Rollins
found on the website - www.emergentnazarenes.blogspot.com