Right now my podcast feeder is downloading last night’s program of The Spirit of Things (ABC Radio National), which I haven’t listened to yet. The title of the program is Emerging Church: Small Boat Big Sea. Must be a look into the small Manly community. I’ve got some shopping and housework to do, so can’t listen to it now.

Go get it yourself at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/sot_20061119.mp3

Update: I’ve just listened to the podcast. It was a breezy sail through SBBS, and offered a thorough and warm illustration of daily life in the community. While the preliminary focus was on community life, it finished with an in-depth interview with Mike Frost about his book, Exiles. I’ve always thought Rachel Kohn (the program presenter and interviewer) to be a little warm to evangelicalism (not that there’s anything wrong with that), at least the Sydney version of it, and her presentation seems at some instances to place the emerging church, and SBBS as an example, against it. But she did it positively and warmly, as always. Good to hear Frost’s passion for social justice come through.

It’s not the first time the emerging church has been discussed on the ABC, and in nearly all stories I’ve heard it’s described as the new church for Gen Y, or X. Or it’s the christianity for post-christians. Are these descriptions fair? If you need to describe the emerging church in a five-second sound-byte then power to it, but there is so much more to it, I think.

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