"Emergent
doesn't have a position on absolute truth, or on anything for
that matter. Do you show up at a dinner party with your neighbors
and ask, 'What's this dinner party's position on absolute truth?'
No, you don't, because it's a nonsensical question." At
the 2005 National Youth Workers Convention
"Postmodernism
was the key to unlock the door to the future of my theology and
ministry."
"Lectio
divina is a very ancient way of reading Scripture—where you
take a very small chunk and read it over and over."
"The first time I introduced this, the kids came in, and
I had a candle going and a little incense burning and some Gregorian
chant music on the CD player." Tony Jones, from interview with editor Jeff Bailey, Cutting Edge magazine, pp. 15-22.
"We've
used prayer with icons, or the Eastern Orthodox
Jesus prayer."
"We've
done Ignatian meditation."
