With the new year upon us this seems like the right time to highlight the best comments from the most popular posts of 2005. True, Out of Ur has only been in existence since October, but if mediocre sitcoms have taught us anything it's that everyone loves a "best of" show. The comments below are ones we found insightful, witty, or just plain funny. Thanks to everyone who has helped get this conversation started. We look forward to more conversation, controversy, and congeniality in 2006.

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Why James McDonald is Not Emerging

What are Emergent Christians? I thought Rev. McDonald made his point quite clear. Emergent Christians are fault-finding, biblically illiterate, disobedient, style worshiping, culturally obsessed, people seduced by a desire for respectability.

Posted by Michael Kruse

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How Emergent Are You? McLaren's Seven Layers of the Emergent Conversation

Is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that this whole website appears to be far more focused on the world than on our Lord ...