First Blog Entry: Intro: I decided I needed a blog-place where I coud think about what I call Steve'sSelectBunch

I decided I needed a blog-place where I coud think occasionally about what I call Steve'sSelectBunch. These are the blogs about Christian faith and opinion that has recently been distinguised as "emerging" on the one s+d, and "traditional," on the other.

Steve loves to point his readers in the present period to the faith blog Jesus Creed, animated and edited by Scot McKnight.  So pointed by The steve bishop Daily and The reformational Daily (both of these are Steve paper.li blogs).  I receive and check out these daily.  Somet+mz I'm more thoro, somet+mz I take a quick look and click up only one or two of the t+tlz whose latest he wants to clue us in on.

I often have des+rz to dwell on a McKnight blog-entry of provocation to conversation about our shared faith in interaction with some issue or concern or ideational move that I entertain thru the modal lens of pisteutics (comes from the Greek word transliterated as  pistis.   Hence, the derived term for our sc+entific and philosophical theor+zing for which a technical term is very useful toward a deepened understanding of this creational law-order zone studied by a distinct discipline -- namely, pisteutics.   I've discovered one other usage of "pisteutics" on the Net.

Well, I also found this reference on Jewish American Heritage Month.

But the main zone of my attention a lengthy article with support graphics, by J. Wood 

 on the blog PowellsBooks.Blog way back in Jun3,2k08,  "Of Myths and Pisteutics (or when the waves of faith crash against the rocks of reason").  This is wondrously overstated, too bad.  One coud as easily speak of the waves of reason crashing against the rocks of faith/s, or to mix it up a bit further one coud wr+t of reasons of wavicle theory crashing against ultimate faith in rocks, physicochemical processes, electromagnetic events in a human brain or thru a TV cable to a reception box in your home.

I'm not at all interested in trying to shoot down Wood's h+ly literate and interesting illustrated essay.  Basically, he's comparing "the monomyth structuring much of Lost's subtext [a contemporary TV show with many episodes]" which is no less than " Joseph Canpbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces."

I'm with Wood certainly in a lack of tolerance for book t+tlz that the use the word "myth" as a synonym for "lie," "falsehood," "factually mistaken," and all such nonsense.  "Myth" is a good word, as in philosopher Ernst Cassirer's second volume Myth in his triology Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, a work that enormously influencedd Herman Dooyeweerd.

I mean to focus more on communities of Christian faith (not so much on inter-religons dialogue), the communal faith-discourses inter nos, and the kind of current thawt processes stimulated within and out of those discourses, as these conversations appear on specific blogs on the Net.  Christian faith is advanced and retarded by this layer of public communication on the new media.

By the way, PowellsBooks.Blog presents the subhead "Authors, readers, critics, media -- and booksellers."  This k+nd of literate e-commerce rem+nds me of Byron Borger's style of bookselling on Hearts and M+inds blog.<blockquote>Our central Pennsylvania shop is casual and homey and we do a sizable mail-order business as well. We believe that we can help you find books that you might not find elsewhere. We are -- as a matter of principle, not pragmatics -- very ecumenical and carry books from a variety of perspectives. It's not everywhere that you can get works by Thomas Merton, Francis Schaeffer, Martin Luther King, Madeleine L'Engle and Jack Hayford all served up with a knowing smile and a hearty recommendation.


While we ourselves are Presbyterian (for instance, we love the writings of Eugene Peterson, J.I. Packer and Frederick Buechner) we happily carry resources for all sorts of mainline parishes, faith-based mission groups, those praying for charismatic renewal and laity-oriented small-group ministries. No matter what your need or tradition, we are here to serve you.


We also sell distinctive gifts, cards and all sorts of recorded music--from Bruce Cockburn to Yo Yo Ma, The Supertones to Squirrel Nut Zippers. We can offer helpful suggestions in all sorts of areas (especially about the coolest contemporary Christian music and Celtic tunes!) We're glad you've discovered us and we offer you -- most of all -- God's peace.


Visit our Contact page to learn about how to get ahold of us.</blockquote>Now, that's a bookstore, and ideationally Hearts and M+nds are interconnected with the kind of blogs that more or less compose Steve'sSelectBunch, that's qu+t a blogbunch.  Steve's move represents an opening to an info-stream that has not until reading the blogs in Steve's publishing stable helped me f+nally notice a trend of intercommunication with between reformational blogging at its best and faith directions, conversations, and debates being pursued in a larger evangelical frameworkj -- where these noo developments are w+dly entertained.

-- Owlb

Bonus:  Click up the Hearts and M+nds article, "Bes+dz the Bible: 100 Books,"  by Burns+d Wr+ter'z Collective + frendz.  (Please, all, mercy on m+ Owlbirdbet© Crossover spellings ™.)