i love it when people dont’ know the lingo – don’t know who brian or tony or peter are – don’t know its “a dialogue” – but are somehow *there* regardless. makes it all feel somehow more legit to me when that happens.

i met my wife when she was living in the middle east. she was in the dark about this thing. didn’t have the definitions. didn’t know the authors. and quite honestly, doesn’t really care to. but she was already there non-the-less… just because of the fact that she had lived outside of the country, and thus outside of the christain bubble, and had a different context to speak from.

she could look back at america from swimming in waters outside of our fishbowl and see our consumerism in a whole new light – like some of the dollar figures attached to some of these building programs. and was more than ready to meet in a coffee shop and talk about her experiences with people who didn’t necessarily have seminary degrees. and also more than ready to speak arabic with the iraqi family who was abandoned by our government after being given amnesty and showing up next door to some of our people.

its a big wonderful mess of a conversation.