Hoping to stay cutting-edge, Relevant Magazine has decided to invite blogger Kurt Willems to “write from an anabaptist perspective on issues surrounding church, faith, and theology in a post-Christian culture.” In his opening column Kurt was brilliantly able to include at least seven anabaptist clichés, make numerous references to “empire”, celebrate the marginalization of the church in the US, condescendingly comment about a popular Christian song that celebrates the uniqueness of God’s greatness, and demonize Constantine (which is a requirement for all neo-anabaptists).
Nothing seems to excite neo-anabaptists more than the prospect of the church being pushed to the margins of society. It is from the margin that the church will supposedly finally return to its pure, spotless, and “authentically Christ-centered mode of humility, enemy-love, and justice.” Once the church is freed from the entanglements of the “marriage of empire to faith” and securely marginalized, people will be undoubtedly drawn to join our new-found “alternative culture.” Of course we can’t have too many people join our alternative culture lest we find ourselves not on the margins anymore.
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