A Very Brief Summary

By “emergent,” I do not refer to those who have fallen away from the faith entirely. We have always had apostates. By emergent I mean those who want to retain some kind of recognizable connection to the evangelical movement, but who want to do the hep cat thing. The emergents are kids from the junior high group after church, standing on the far side of the parking lot, smoking candy cigarettes and flashing gang signs at the church ladies getting into minivans.