Sociology was decently interesting today. Our professor, who seems to be very steeped in postmodern and emergent thought, proposed to us a radical idea: "What would happen if we stopped going to church?" For an hour he talked about what abandoning the institutionalized church would look like, returning to being the Church in community, emphasiving communal and missional living. He had very good points, such as that Sunday gatherings were originally created in order to commemorate the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, but was underscored by communal living throughout the entire week in ekklesias (communities). In referring to the institutionalized church, he used an analogy comparing the warfare of world war 2 to the Vietnam war: in the 1940s, the world war 2 tank warfare worked excellently, but in the 1960s, the tanks--the institutionalized church that served the modern world so well--were not well-suited to the task at hand in Vietnam (akin to the institutionalized church's struggle to breathe and make an impact in a postmodern society). Change was needed; change is needed. Most of the voices in the classroom were extremely postmodern, though I imagine the majority have no idea that they were such (I have met many people here who have no clue of the emerging postmodernism). I hope I explained that well; I never do very well with technical explanations.

Caleb, Hensel and I ate dinner at O'Charley's after class. Since I don't want to waste all of my money, I just purchased a small sandwich. It was good to catch up on the times. Caleb, a desperate-yet-hopeful romantic like me, is finding life looking up for him. For the first 3/4 of first semester, he wrestled with a crush and nearly gave up, strangled in the emotional burden we both know very well. Then, out-of-nowhere, comes the news that his crush has a crush on him! We're all rooting him on. He's a very good kid and I love him like a brother.