Cohort Revisited

The Cohort, under reconstruction, is meeting on Saturday nights around 7:30 at Melissa's house. We are reading John Howard Yoder's Preface to Theology. This book choice is not only because it is believed that Melissa and others are involved with a rough looking bunch who call themselves the Hauerwasian Mafia but also because Yoder is quite the thinker when it comes to theology and he will not stray away from the tough passages or marginal voices within this stream of thought. His main areas of thinking involve christology, pacifism, and the ethical-politico call of the Church, not the government nor any collusion of the people of faith with the Powers That Be, to save history, the present and the eschaton.

If you want to read more about him, wikipedia (of course) has a nice overview, but no affiliation with him is necessary to join up with us. We really just talk about what we don't know and the revolving questions that lurk in the shadowy corners of our (mostly) evangelical upbringings like little, brown spiders. To expose them is to rob them of their strength over us whether we in the end come to reconcile ourselves to them or drown them in quarts of anti-spider spray.

The email for the cohort is coemergentco@gmail.com if you are interested in coming we can give you directions and times. If you have already attended, hopefully this will be a good place to check in, post on topics for further discussion, ask questions and get times and dates for when we will be meeting next.