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1 posted on 01/24/2008 11:14:01 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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Donald Miller, author of the book Blue Like Jazz, is involved with the Emergent rebellion against sola Scriptura. Yes, and Miller’s BLJ has fast become a classic in Emergent circles and his popularity even rivals that of one of his own favorite authors potty-mouthed “Christian” and New Age advocate Anne LaMott.

Some of you may recall a post Ingrid wrote about Miller last year called Donald Miller: Rising Emergent Star. In it she said. “One of the Emergent church’s rising stars is Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, sort-of comedian and one cool, postmodern ‘Christian’.”

Miller, “grew up in Houston, TX,” but is now a member of an emerging church in Portland, OR called Imago Dei Community Having left home “at the age of twenty-one,” Miller “traveled across the country until he ran out of money in Portland, Oregon, where he lives today.” Unable to launch “his own publishing house”:

Miller is just another of the Emergent new school of so-called “Christians” who feel that because they are the “missional” and alleged true “followers of Jesus” they are somehow excused from having to watch their language and Christian character. Last year Zach Dundas of the Willamette Week Online, “a weekly in Portland, Oregon,” did a piece on Miller called “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.”

And as Ingrid introduced it she informed us that it would: “have to be bleeped.

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140 posted on 01/28/2008 10:24:24 AM PST by kcvl
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At a YOUNG LIFE conference? I thought Young Life was better than that.


152 posted on 01/28/2008 11:10:13 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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Another little boy who can’t grow up.


169 posted on 01/29/2008 8:46:44 AM PST by bmwcyle (McCain -- if you like liberal RINO meat for lunch.)
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Did you ever notice?

Left wing liberal Christians are really intolerant!


170 posted on 01/29/2008 8:48:03 AM PST by airborne (The Founding Fathers would be deeply saddened.)
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