Category: Emerging Church
-
Learning to Fail Fast (in the church)
Lewis Center for Church Leadership: Learning to Fail Fast "… Petrie advocates what he calls "vertical development" or the advancement in a person's capacity to think in "more complex, systemic, strategic, and interdependent ways (in contrast to horizontal development that adds knowledge, skills, and competencies). New leaders must think differently before they can act differently.…
-
Saturday Links
1. Building Congregations Around Art Galleries and Cafes as Spirituality Wanes "… Although the number of evangelical churches in the United States declined for many years, the trend reversed in 2006, with more new churches opening each year since, according to the Leadership Network's most recent surveys. This wave of "church planting" has been highest…
-
Progressive vs. Emergence Christianity: From Where I Sit (Phyllis Tickle)
Patheos -Progressive Christian Portal: Progressive vs. Emergence Christianity: From Where I Sit Despite the sharing of conversations, there still are some distinct differences between Progressive Christianity and Emergence Christianity. … Despite that sharing of conversationalists, however, there still are some distinct differences between Progressive Christianity and Emergence Christianity, at least three or four of which…
-
Emerging Church and Mainliners
I've been saying for years that much of the emerging Church is simply Evangelicals embracing Mainline Protestant theology while experiencing reticence about Mainline institutions. While "emerging church" encompasses a broad range of expression, in the Mainline world, it is almost monotone. Emerging Mainliners have little dispute with Mainline theology or the deep commitment to progressive/liberal…
-
Free-Marketeers, Environmentalists, and Emergent Church
Pileus: Why Free-Marketeers Should Be Environmentalists (And Vice Versa) It is no original insight to note that ecologists and economists both derive equilibrium theories from the Darwinian assumption of natural selection of the traits of successful replicators – organisms for ecologists, firms for economists. Like an ecosystem, the economy is an “emergent” or “spontaneous” order,…
-
Selective Emergence?
I have a post up at Jesus Creed today about emergence, emerging church, and economics. Feel free to join the conversation: Selective Emergence?
-
What Became of Opposition to “Empire?”
Yesterday at Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight linked a great post by Allan Bevere where he raised an excellent question: I know I am not the only one who has noticed that all the Christians comparing the USA to the Roman Empire during the reign of George W. Bush are strangely silent now that we are…
-
Knocking Holes in the Darkness – Adam Hamilton
SMU: Knocking Holes in the Darkness The Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, is the recipient of the 2010 Perkins School of Theology Distinguished Alumnus Award. The award recognizes a Perkins graduate who has demonstrated effectiveness and integrity in service to the church, continuing support and…