Ok Kirk, focus now…focus! Honestly, it was a hectic weekend and I just finished this book this morning. Hence why my syncblog is posting in the PM hours instead of earlier. But since Hacking Christianity hasn’t posted up their main snycblog either, I don’t feel terribly guilty.
Let me begin by saying I didn’t expect to like this book. However, that was based on the presumptive knowledge that this is the “death tsunami” book talked about in UMC circles.
I dislike the metaphorical use of tsunami to explain the inevitable effect of an ever aging denomination. Weems chooses this term because he’s looking for something that triggers alarm and horror. He states,
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