Emergent Village board member Brian McLaren joined the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land, the National Association of Evangelicals’ Ted Haggard, Rob Bell, Lauren Winner, and others in issuing a joint statement to President Bush urging him to take immediate action on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
These Evangelicals for Darfur are “calling for an immediate conference with the President to discuss economic sanctions and the intervention of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the war-torn region.”
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.