What is Redemic?

In short Redemic is about redemption, christian recovery, missional/incarnational community and ministry. I hope to resource, challenge and encourage recovery people to be more missional and incarnational and scattered churches to be better prepared for reaching and loving addicted and radically broken people.

 In unnecessarily complicated terms Redemic is
1. A play on the word Epidemic as in the epidemic need for redemption in our society

 2. Redemic is combination of two words Redeem and Emic

Reedeem: compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something), do something that compensates for poor past performance or behavior., gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment. Jesus Christ, through his sacrificial death, purchased believers from the slavery of sin to set us free from that bondage.
Emic :Emic and etic are terms used by anthropologists and by others in the social and behavioral sciences to refer to two kinds of data concerning human behavior. In particular, they are used in cultural anthropology to refer to kinds of fieldwork done and viewpoints obtained.[1] "The emic approach investigates how local people think" (Kottak, 2006): How they perceive and categorize the world, their rules for behavior, what has meaning for them, and how they imagine and explain things. "The etic (scientist-oriented) approach shifts the focus from local observations, categories, explanations, and interpretations to those of the anthropologist. The etic approach realizes that members of a culture often are too involved in what they are doing to interpret their cultures impartially. When using the etic approach, the ethnographer emphasizes what he or she considers important." Emic knowledge and interpretations are those existing within a culture, that are ‘determined by local custom, meaning, and belief’ (Ager and Loughry, 2004: n.p.) and best described by a 'native' of the culture. (wiki def)

So Redemic is the study of human behavior and beliefs in the light of being redeemed for the purpose of redeeming others through the lens of the Christian recovery subculture of which I am an native