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Haiku Flu

You've heard of the ideavirus? A theme or concept travels organically and informally from person to person until it pervades and exerts unusual influence on a culture. Given recent discoveries by my cobloggers Rebecca and Christa, it's clear that haiku flu is making the rounds these days. I like to think of Strangely Dim as this particular outbreak's equivalent of Typhoid Mary, and that happily the poetic pandemic we find ourselves in has no immediate cure.

As only the latest evidence of this admittedly audacious contention, I point to Mike Stavlund, a friend of Likewise whom I esteem greatly. Mike attended a recent Emergent conversation with theologian Jurgen* Moltmann, and has been so ebullient in his enthusiasm about it that his friends are putting constraints on how he talks about it. You can read the creative impact of those constraints--theological haiku--by visiting his blog. Haiku flu--catch it! Spread it!

*My apologies to Dr. Moltmann; I don't know how to make an umlaut over the "u" in his first name. 

Posted by Dave Zimmerman at September 24, 2009 10:10 AM