Porpoise Diving Life
Bill Dahl is the author of The Porpoise Diving Life: Reality for the Rest of Us or Picking Up Where Purpose-Driven Peters Out, an unpublished manuscript and blog.
Based in Oregon, Bill is known as a writer, social activist and speaker who regularly writes articles connected with the emerging church movement in the USA. See his excerpts at Next Wave and interview for Emergent.
In his article, Reality for the Rest of Us – 2006, Dahl explores alternatives to Rick Warren’s approach to theology, while paying tribute to the contribution Warren provides in his material. Though in some ways Bill is responding to a readers digest version of Rick’s actual theology, he provides some useful distinctions. Bill responds to a view of Christianity which has all the answers linked to one purpose (preparation for eternity), with a vision of life with multiple purposes – impacting this world with Christ’s love each day. He says that no matter what we believe, life is filled with the unexpected, the uncertain and the unpredictable. God reveals himself to us through them too.
This guy’s worth keeping an eye on. Or joining up on his email list. He’s given me a bit of inspiration to finish off my review of The Purpose Driven Life (at Driving with Purpose) and get on to Day 41.
Postkiwi Duncan Macleod posts on life, faith and culture in Australia, drawing from his involvement in the creative industry, the Uniting Church, the blogosphere, generational research, the emerging church and life on the Gold Coast.
Duncan is the editor of The Inspiration Room, a site showcasing advertising, design and other work produced by the global creative community.
