Tony Jones is the national coordinator of Emergent Village.  I just went through his colorful, multi-flavored new book, The New Christians:  Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier (Jossey-Bass, 2008).

 

Tony, I confess.  You did have me laughing on a few choice descriptions.  I need a little comic relief in the midst of many of the other things I disagreed with in the book.  I enjoyed this one-liner.

Like ice cream, there are the main flavors, but there are also all kinds of exotic flavors—Baptist Chip, Baptist Swirl, Low-Fat Baptist Lite, and Double Baptist Chunk. (7)

It comes with a funny endnote:

Wikipedia lists one hundred different variations of Baptist, including some exotic flavors that you’ve probably never heard of before, like Sixth Principle Baptists and the New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches. (237n4)

But here is where I am one up on Tony.  I know vaguely about the New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches.  And I live clear out here in the Idaho frontier.  What’s up Tony?  You have been hanging out with the wrong people.  You need to get to know the flavors of ice cream better.  Believe it or not, out here on the frontier, we even have potato ice cream.