i've been feeling unnerved about blogging about my faith journey because of the ads that keep popping up above.

i just want to clarify. *i hate those things!*

so while i'm avoiding grading i ran into a blog written by Douglas Rushkoff -- if you know me, you've very likely heard me talk about him in the context of Generation X & Merchants of Cool.

But his ideas -- particularly his big idea -- that we can take religion as an answer or as a question -- really resonated with me. (and it resonates because i like his answer -- that religion functions better as a question than as an answer.)

I percieve this to be a parallel conversation with the whole redemptive movement thing that Webb articulates -- but in many ways I like Rushkoff's way of dealing with these questions better.

Webb, it seems to me, does a good job talking about some of the underlying issues in a way that committed modernists will *get* and enjoy -- but ultimately his method feels equally rigid to me. and -- of course -- i think that webb completely gets the homosexual questions wrong --

i do, just in case you care, dislike how Rushkoff is always featuring the discontinuity (ultimately) with Judaism / Religion. He uses the metaphor of dreaming and waking --

"It's time we wake up from the stories we've been telling ourselves and invent a new one."

and to me, these statement is fraught with a kind of platonic-cave-meets-the-manifest-destiny mythology.

and it misses all of the (much better) nuances implicit in the metaphor of "telling stories" -- specifically that stories are all rooted in structures, exploring and exploiting genres, reinforcing mythology...i could go on, but....

i really should ready myself for class...