Good Marginal Thinking

The heroes of church history began as reflective Christians who doubted
what
everyone else took for granted by Brian McLaren

Your skin color can make you marginal in some settings. Your level of
income or education can do it
in others. Your worship style or theological persuasion or political
party can put you at or beyond
the fringe in still others. Being, thinking, looking, or acting
different from the majority can push
you to the margins.

I'd like to speak up on behalf of a group of people in our churches who
feel different pretty often,
and therefore feel marginalized pretty often. Dan Taylor, in The Myth of
Certainty (IVP, 2000),
calls them "reflective Christians." Less sympathetic people call them
doubters.

A Russian writer stated, "In Russia, there are two kinds of people:
Smart and mean, and stupid and kind." In America, the mind and heart
can be seen arranged in two significant misdirections, and with other
more positive possibilities.

One common American misdirection is the Midwestern-style anti-
intellectual "hey-mr-smartie-pants-who-do-you-think-you-are" crowd.
These compensate for their intellectual inferiority by claiming that
someone who has a mind can't also have a heart. The other is the
emotionally repressive rationalists, reductionists, logical
positivists, behaviorists, "skeptics," eliminativists, and others who
want to deny the validity of anything intuitive or heart-involving.
These compensate for their emotional inferiority by claiming that
those who have a heart can't also have a mind. Both are in grave
error.

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One winter morning a husband and wife in northern Idaho were
listening to the radio during breakfast. They heard the announcer Say,
"We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your
car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the Snowplows can get
through." So the good wife went out and moved her car. A week later
while they are eating breakfast again, the radio announcer said, "We are
expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today.

You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the
snowplows can get through." The good wife went out and moved her car
again. The next week they are again having breakfast, when the radio
announcer says, "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You
must park...." Then the electric power went out. The good wife was very
upset, and with a worried look on her face she said, "Honey, I don't
know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the
snowplows can get through?" With the love and understanding in his voice
that all men who are married to blondes exhibit, the husband replied,
"Why don't you Just leave it in the garage this time?"
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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

Festum Album Dec 25 to Jan 1 - A Festival of White Racial Pride
Introduction to Festum Album
The purpose of this holiday is in line with the principles and the
traditions of Creativity. Decades ago, our founder Ben Klassen gave the
White Race its own racial religion for the first time in its history.
Likewise, Festum Album will add to our creative traditions, providing the
White Race its own pan-European ethnocentric festival. In our glorious
future to come, we envision Festum Album being celebrated by White families
throughout the entire world. It will someday become a world celebration in a
White World. Though we as Creators strive to promote the interests of the
White Race on a daily basis, it is only fitting that we set aside one week
at the year