So the Oscars have been wept along to, and we've had the BAFTAs and the BRITs and the Grammys... I think people are missing a trick here. Come on Emergent, give us an award ceremony! We demand a tacky hotel and venue, with numbered tables, free alcohol and cut away shots to Andrew Jones as he shuffles when the Lifetime Achievement category approaches!
Someone should design a gong... I reckon a brass cast of a tea light should do it.
And the award for Best Use of a Video Projector in a Badly Lit Space goes to...
Further categories and nominations welcome. The 'Mergees' start here...
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Lord, save us...!
Posted by: LauraHD | February 25, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Category: Achievement in Hair (While Making It Look Like You're Not Really Trying)
Posted by: Benjamin Sternke | February 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Categories:
- Most prolific Blogger
- Most gratuitous use of unnecessary punctuation marks on publicity. (eg: re:connect, un:churched, dis:praxia, etc.)
- Cleanest Apple Mac...
The list goes on.
Posted by: Mike R | February 25, 2008 at 02:44 PM
Best facial hair
Deepest deconstruction
Church with fewest participants claiming to be a movement
Strongest brew (coffee and beer categories)
Posted by: Pastor Astor | February 25, 2008 at 05:07 PM
- The Flatest Leadership Category
(I think we're gonna need a bigger podium for that one).
Posted by: Mike R | February 25, 2008 at 08:33 PM
jonny baker hosts
karen ward & mark peirson report from the red carpet
hosted at the fuller seminary auditorium
additional categories:
best original blog post
best blog posted adapated from another blog post
best sound editing of a mark driscoll rant
worst supporting community
least tolerable praise song
Posted by: bob c | February 25, 2008 at 08:36 PM
whitest atonement metaphor nomination: Scot McKnight for his golfclubs metaphor
unintentionally bad hairdo nomination: D Kimball
most likely to use "post" as a prefix for any historical event: Tony J
most improved theologian: Pete Rollins
fundamentalist/foundationalist emergent wannabe nomination: Mark Driscoll
best supporting role: Ingrid at http://sliceoflaodicea.com/
Posted by: priest | February 26, 2008 at 04:16 AM
Chris Brain, anti-hero and patron saint of EC.
Lifetime Achievement Award
for outstanding contribution to car-crash-church
Can he be revised yet? Is he recoverable?
Posted by: Nic | February 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM
most likely to be labeled a "heretic"
least likely to author a controversial book
most linked to
best name recognition while still having zero facial recognition
Posted by: Adam Lehman | March 01, 2008 at 08:10 PM