Category: Emerging Church
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A View from the Pew of One Emerging Presbyterian Woman on the Recent GA
Here is a letter from one of my loyal Presbyterian readers in California and an avid Emerging Church conversationalist. She wrote this letter to Bruce Reyes-Chow, our new moderator, in response to a post he wrote Can we agree to disagree about homosexuality? She expresses well what I hear others saying. (Name is withheld, but…
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Church Basement Roadshow – San Jose
I'm in San Jose for the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly. My first day here was a non-stop string of meetings from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm, but I made the fifteen-minute walk to First Presbyterian Church just in time to see the Church Basement Roadshow: A Rollin' Gospel Revival. The event is a combination…
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Top ten reasons why the emerger didn’t cross the road?
Last week I presented ten reasons why the emergent chicken crossed the road. Now Michael Patton has identified the top ten reasons why the emergent chicken didn’t cross the road. Check it out!
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Why I’m not a Red Letter Christian
Are you a Red Letter Christian? "Red Letter" refers to versions of the Bible that put direct quotes from Jesus in red ink. Red Letter Christians believe that the ethics and teaching taught directly by Jesus should take priority over other agendas presented in the Bible. Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis are two figures who…
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Why did the Emergent Chicken Cross the Road?
Why did the Emergent Chicken cross the road? Here are my top ten reasons in no particular order: The Chicken was drawn to the candles and incense on the other side of the road. There was a Hauerwas discussion group at the coffee shop on the other side of the road. The idea to cross…
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Emergent’s New Christians and the Young and Restless Reformed
Christianity Today: Emergent's New Christians and the Young and Restless Reformed A new movement is attracting a younger generation of Christians, shaking up institutions, denominations, and churches along the way. Not everyone in the movement is attracted to it for the same reasons, but they gather at conferences and online to share thoughts, debate, and…
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MEC: Emerging (Evangelical?) Christians
At the beginning of Part 3 (Chapter 10) in Everything Must Change, on "Reframing Jesus," McLaren offers the emerging view of the gospel contrasted with what he considers the conventional view. At the end of this section, McLaren will write that his conventional view articulated here "…can be modified with an almost infinite number of…
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Brian McLaren Joins the Southern Baptist Convention
I could never have imagined this story, but McLaren has joined the Southern Baptist Convention. For the details, click here.