Kruse Kronicle

Category: Emerging Church

  • Sept. KC Emergent Cohort

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    KC Emergent Cohort: Sept. KC Emergent Cohort We will be gathering on Friday, September 21st at 6:00pm with Tony Jones, National Coordinator for Emergent Village. Tony is in town speaking at the Postmodern Youth Ministry conference. We will be having dinner (or whatever you want to order) at Perkins restaurant on Santa Fe Street in…

  • The Death of Diversity

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    Wall Street Journal: The Death of Diversity (HT: Juan Sarmiento) Now comes word that diversity as an ideology may be dead, or not worth saving. Robert Putnam, the Harvard don who in the controversial bestseller "Bowling Alone" announced the decline of communal-mindedness amid the rise of home-alone couch potatoes, has completed a mammoth study of…

  • 20K In Funding for Presbymergent Churches

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    Presbymergent: 20K In Funding for Presbymergent Churches Sherry Britton in the NCD department in Louisville has asked us to share the following exciting news with all our presbymergent friends: The director of Evangelism has just found $20,000 in his budget designated for emergent churches.  He would like to receive proposals for the use of the…

  • Living by Revealed Categories

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    I'm reading The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 by J. Richard Middleton (a great book BTW!) In it, he quotes Jewish scholar Abraham Herschel on Christian theologians: It has seemed puzzling to me how greatly attached to the Bible you seem to be and yet how much like pagans you handle it.…

  • Emerging Church Motivational Posters

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    Bob Robinson of Vanguard Church has a link to a site with Emerging Church motivational posters created by Phil Johnson. These are just too funny! Here are some of my favorites.  

  • First Presbyterian Church Launches Emergent Worship for Young Adults

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    Hunington News: First Presbyterian Church Launches Emergent Worship for Young Adults (HT: Presbyweb) Huntington, WV (HNN) – On August 5, 2007, First Presbyterian Church of Huntington will launch The Crossing, a cutting edge, Emerging worship gathering designed by and for young adults. The Crossing is a unique worship service in the Huntington area. The style…

  • A Weekend Emergent Village Experience

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    John H Armstrong: A Weekend Emergent Village Experience A review by my new friend John Armstrong. This weekend's Midwest Emergent Gathering, held July 20-21 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, was an event that I enjoyed participating in immensely. I was invited, by my friend Mike Clawson of up/rooted (Chicago), to answer several questions in a plenary…

  • Change of Plans

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    I had a plane ticket to Chicago this morning to attend the Emergent Midwest meeting that begins this morning. Change of plans. Yesterday I canceled my flight and hotel reservation. Truth be told, I expect I have attended my last Emergent event. Apart from some of the conversations at these events that center on the…

  • KC Emergent Cohort July Meeting

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    KC Emergent Cohort: July Gathering It is time again for another gathering of the KC Emergent Cohort. We are going to gather on Wednesday, July 18th at 8:00 pm at Tera Yakel’s home (please email Terayakel.at.hotmail.com for address, directions, etc) for dessert and drinks (feel free to bring your favorite beverage) and a conversation with…

  • Where to next? A presbymergent beginnings survey

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    Presbymergent: Where to next? A presbymergent beginnings survey In only four months, presbymergent has sparked a substantial amount of interest and participation. From a number of places within the Presbyterian Church (USA) – big churches, small churches, churches with long histories, new church developments, seminary students, seminary professors, renewal leaders, denominational officials, missionaries, elders, ministers,…