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Category: Emerging Church

  • The Well Spring

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    Wall Street Journal: The Well Spring: Maybe Christianity in Europe hasn't run dry. BRUSSELS–Old ladies sitting in otherwise empty churches. That's the picture most of my American friends have of spirituality in Europe. Well, that or a continent being overrun by jihadist Muslims. It's not an entirely incorrect picture (the empty churches, not the scimitar-wielding…

  • Bummed About Bailey Book

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    Five months ago, I learned Kenneth Bailey had a new book called Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels. I wrote then that I thought announcing such a book was cruel and inhumane and then made me wait five months. As the weeks rolled by, the release date was finally set for…

  • A Force for Good (Emerging Church)

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    USA Today: A Force for Good For a growing movement of believers, an activist faith means more than proselytizing about Jesus and stoking the fires of our culture wars. Welcome to the new (and yes, liberal) world of evangelical Christianity. A passerby might not have known: Was this going to be a church service or…

  • Idealism Will Burn You Out

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    John H. Armstrong: Idealism Will Burn You Out I grew up in the 1960s generation. That tells you a lot really. We were disillusioned, on a very profound level, yet very idealistic on another. I adopted elements of both of these as my own intellectual and spiritual life developed over the decades that followed….I dreamed…

  • Tim Keel Book Signing

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    If you live in the Kansas City area, you might want to drop the Barnes and Noble on the Plaza about 7:30 this evening. Tim Keel, pastor at Jacob's Well, will be having a book signing for his new book Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos. I haven't read the book…

  • Quiet Flirtation: Monasticism and Evangelicals

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    Breakpoint Worldview Magazine: Quiet Flirtation: Monasticism and Evangelicals About eight years ago, I found myself in a convent in Bogotá, Colombia. I had not planned to get me to a nunnery. But it just so happened that I had signed up for a women’s retreat with the Baptist church where I was serving with youth…

  • Emergent churches seek new ways to worship, serve

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    Presbyterian Outlook: Emergent churches seek new ways to worship, serve (Requires free registration.) Emergent worship folks in the Presbyterian church are trying to figure out where to go from here – along the way taking the temperature of people interested in the emergent life, and planning more conversations. A new book — An Emergent Manifesto…

  • Young evangelicals diverge from GOP

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    Washington Times: Young evangelicals diverge from GOP Young evangelical Protestants continue to cling closely to their bedrock conservative values. Yet they are abandoning trust in the White House and straying from the Republican Party, according to an analysis that tracked waning sentiments from 2001 to 2007. "An examination of the younger generation [those ages 18…

  • Postmodern Youth Ministry Conference

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    I got back from PCUSA General Assembly Council meetings last night. Then I rushed out to Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, KS, for a worship service that was part of the Postmodern Youth Ministry conference led there by Tony Jones of Emergent Village. The worship team from Jacob's Well did the music, and Mike King…

  • KC Emergent Cohort Location Change

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    From Tera Yakel We are making a location change for our gathering on Friday night. We will now be meeting at Oklahoma Joe's BBQ in Olathe KS (map). We are gathering at 6:00pm Friday, September 21st to have a conversation with Tony Jones (National Coordinator for Emergent Village) about what is happening and the future…