“This is the crux: When a 14-year old hacks Netscape and at 19 releases Firefox which gets downloaded a million times the first day; when a bored teen sings “Dragostea Din Tea” by the Romanian pop band “O-Zone” into his web cam and gets downloaded over a million times … emerging church leaders need to be nurturing their transformed imaginations and the imaginations of those young emerging leaders within their scope of influence.” Karl [Kirk] Bartha, Technology and the Velocity of Glory Next Wave].
UPDATE: I meant Kirk, not Karl. Sorry. Thats what happens when i am blogging at 2am.
Just a minor editorial point – the author is “Kirk Bartha” not Karl Bartha. In view of Kirk’s spiffy article in an e-zine I’m sure one could make an amusing but educative point about the difference between Kirk as a pithy writer and Karl Barth as a theologian suffering from prolixity (viz. the multi-volume Church Dogmatics).
Thanks, Phil — at first glance, I was trying to figure out how and why Karl Barth was commenting on technology… him commenting on Netscape seems chronologically unlikely. All that aside Andrew, the quote you presented makes a strong point.
For Karl Barth to be commenting on Netscape one would have to invoke (I guess) 1 Samuel 28 to explain it!
ahhhhhh – thanks everyone. i was half asleep at the computer last night. I just corrected that.
Very funny. What a laugh!