Actually, there are a bunch of reasons why I could never be emergent. A couple that come readily to mind
1) I would look silly wearing a toe ring
2) I have little hairs on my big toe that once prompted a family member (she knows who she is that I have "Hobbit feet". That means I don't like to wear sandals
3) Nature is already "highlighting" my hair. Hey, it's not blond - but it's also not my original color
4) I don't like Guinness, or any beer for that matter, and it seems to be the "official beer of the emergent movement" (an insight I gained from reading the book I reviewed here)
5) I have a deeply held religious belief that men (especially THIS man) should not pierce any cartilage
6) I like my Scripture inerrant

Feel free to add your own "Reasons why I could never be emergent" to the list. It was meant to serve as an introduction to the following article in the Christian Science Monitor titled "The Coming Evangelical Collapse". 

Now my analysis - he is wrong on far more counts than he is right. For a "balanced" critique by a blogger with far more credentials than I have, see this blog entry.

For my two cents: Yes, the evangelical church embraced "conservative" politics too closely. That's fruitful to examine if only to extract the lessons God has for us in it. To Jerry Falwell's credit, he came back to where he was supposed to be and embraced the calling God had for him as a pastor. The "encore" of his life was spent pastoring a church and building a Christian university.

BUT...... the evangelical church is not dead, nor will the healthy, Biblical expressions of it "die". That's because those parts are part of Christ's Body.

Now, tell me what YOU think.