Imposter Emerging Church Blogger Caught In Cartoon by Dave Walker
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006I found this cartoon recently at Tall Skinny Kiwi’s blog. Andrew said that he found it at Mixed Moss. Mixed Moss told us she found the cartoon at Charity Hamilton’s blog. Charity Hamilton found it on Johnny Baker’s blog. Johnny Baker gave us the name of the original artist: Dave Walker at Cartoon Church.
Dave explains that he’d been listed in a dissertation blog on the Emerging Church. He defines ‘Emerging Church’ as “People who are going about being ‘the church’ in a bit of a different way to the way that most people are going about it”. Dave connects the ‘Emerging Church’ scene in the UK with alternative worship, a scene he’s been involved in. He discovered a comment on Emerging Church Research from Mark Berry, a fellow blogger who says that Worship Matters, as wonderful as it is, is not a leading voice in the Emerging Church. And so the cartoon. As it turns out, Mark was critiquing the idea of listing ‘emerging church’ blogs according to the number of times they’re listed in Technorati with the Emerging Church tag.
See the rest of Dave’s explanation. See the rest of Mark’s explanation.
Whatever the case, Dave’s provided an excellent critique of the angst over who’s influencing who in the Emerging Church conversation. I was at a seminar on missional church recently when the session leader suggested that Andrew Jones was the equivalent of the Pope in the international Emerging Church conversation. Surely!? The nature of ‘emerging’ is that most people involved in the grassroots could not care less about who is blogging, publishing, speaking, or leading excellent worship experiences in high profile events.
Tags: Art, Blogging, cartoons, Dave Walker, Emerging Church
