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Tag: Emergent

  • What Became of Opposition to “Empire?”

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    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…

  • “Deep Church” – Book Review

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    Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional Just over ten years ago, my friend Steve told me he was part of a core group that wanted to plant a church in my neighborhood, not far from downtown Kansas City, MO. He wanted to know if I knew of a place they could meet.…

  • Jesus as an Emergent Talker

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    Jesus the Radical Pastor: Jesus as an Emergent Talker Exhausted from global warming in oppressed Palestine, Jesus chilled at Jacob’s Well in the realm of “the other” called Samaria. Jesus’ cohort left him to buy organic at the nearest kiosk. A Samaritan woman-”the other to the second power”-approached the community’s gathering space, carrying the symbol…

  • “Engage Economy to Voice Your Values”: An Observation about the Emergent Conversation

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    Economy to Voice Your Values is a great opinion piece by Father Robert Sirico in The Detroit News over the weekend. There has been a heightened demand for participation in church worship. We also hear about the need for participatory democracy, so people play a role in forming policy. Since economics concerns everything we do,…

  • ABC Video on Emergent

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    Andrew Jones had a link yesterday to a 6.5 minute ABC news piece on the Emerging Churches. I found it interesting. You can find it here.

  • The State of Emergent 2006

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    The State of Emergent 2006 is an article written by Emergent-US coordinator, Tony Jones, in Next-Wave Magazine. He is reflecting on what happened in the Emergent conversation last year and writing about what he expects in the near future. One observation that should be of interest to many of you faithful readers: A couple of…

  • Emergent

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    Emergent (Part 1)Emergent (Part 2)Emergent (Part 3)Emergent (Part 4)Emergent (Part 5)Sanctification Through Community (Emergent, Part 6)Setting the Captive Free for Ministry (Emergent, Part 7)Four Leadership Responses to Emergent Concerns (Emergent, Part 8)Dying for the Church Emergent (Emergent, Part 9)Understanding the Postmodern Shift (Emergent, Part 10)