Tag: Emergent Church
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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,…
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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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Emergent Church Difficulties and Differences
Tall Skinny Kiwi: Emergent Church Difficulties and Differences The phrase "emergent church difficulties and differences", although it sounds like a new book title, is actually found in a document from 1622 known as the Propositions of the Synod of the churches of New England, which convened in Boston that year. This document was part of…
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Emergent churches seek new ways to worship, serve
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…
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“Do emergents hate freedom?” Virgil Vaduva
Unfinished Christianity: Do emergents hate freedom? If you aren't familiar with Virgil, he is an immigrant to the US from Romania who grew up under the Soviet system. I always enjoy his passionate take on things. If you’ve been around the emergent blogging scene for a while, you’ve probably seen it: a lot of talk…
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Volf Embraces Economic Freedom
Traveling around in Emergent conversations, I frequently come across high praise for Miroslav Volf and particularly his book Exclusion and Embrace. (A book that I have "included" in my library but have not yet had the chance to "embrace.") For all the accolades he gets, I wonder if my Emergent friends have also read his…
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Deconstructive Theology and the Emergent Church
LeRon Shults: Deconstructive Theology and the Emergent Church The planners of the 2007 Emergent Theological Conversation asked me to write a response to the following question in order to help participants starting thinking ahead about the encounter: "Why is the Emerging Church drawn to Deconstructive Theology?" I'm not sure how soon or exactly where they…
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Emergent church conference explores what movement is, isn’t
Presbyterian Outlook: Emergent church conference explores what movement is, isn’t (This site requires free registration.) Some people in mainline denominations – frustrated, maybe a little desperate – would like the Emergent crowd to hand them a play-by-play they can follow to magically yank young people back in their doors. It doesn’t work that way. But…
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Voice of ‘sage’ inspires, unsettles (Brian McLaren)
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Voice of 'sage' inspires, unsettles Brian McLaren was about to speak at a church youth convention when his host asked the audience a provocative question. How many considered themselves liberal Christians? A smattering of hands and a few cheers. Conservative? Louder claps and hoots. Then he asked: "How many of you wish…
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Emergent Jews
There was a meeting recently between Emergent Christians and a group of Jews calling themselves "Emergent Jews" sponsored by Synagogue 3000, an organization working to revitalize Judaism. Emergent Jews is an article about the event published in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. At this point, anyway, the dialogue is just beginning. The first…