  .  monastic church .  as many of you know i've been following the *  urlLink emergent church *  movement in various online venues for a bit now -  i'm intrigued and more than a little excited by the movement .
 ( though i do,  of course,  have reservations,  hesitations and questions)  but the idea of a urlLink monastic model as being complementary to an ecclesiastic model is pretty exciting to me.
 exciting why?  well:  A.  it's sorta more compatible with the way i want to be invested in higher education ( particularly,  in my case,
 " christian"  higher education.  B.  its pretty descriptive of the ways in which i have most profoundly experienced church -  particularly if you think of these monastic models as urlLink cells -
 in the ways that my friend urlLink kevin rains writes about.  ( I do understand that I'm taking liberties with the concept of monastic living here -  by stretching it to include communal living. but using the notions of urlLink residual and emergent . it seems like its urlLink the vows and the depth and the size and the intention that is the resource-
giving residue and the urlLink small- pieces -  urlLink loosely- joined - structure that gives us the grammar to imagine new incarnations of these profound truths.  C.
 it seems a better way to address some of the urlLink pressing questions around how the church handles vocation which i was blogging about so much this summer -  and am always thinking about a great deal.  oh and BTW,  Daniel,  urlLink this bit of reading ,  i think,
 defines your ideas for your house of preparation beautifully.  man,  i gotta get back to grading!  leaving for miami in 27 hours.  peace~
