Tag: emerging church
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Tom Brokaw on the Emerging Church
For a video of Tom Brokaw’s report on the Emerging Church click here.
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On the Value of the Term “Emerging Church”
Faithmaps Blog (Stephen Shields): On the Value of the Term “Emerging Church” Andrew Jones asks: I ask this every year. This year, MOST people in my world say that the label “emerging church” or “emergent church” does not define or describe the kinds of ministries they are doing. That also means that many books on…
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“Intuitive Leadership” Book Review
What might leadership look like for the Church in the 21st Century? Tim Keel, pastor of Jacob's Well in Kansas City, MO, writes about the mission of the Church in his book Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor and Chaos: To be missiological in a post-Christendom world is not to be more committed…
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Idealism Will Burn You Out
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…
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Tim Keel Book Signing
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…
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Quiet Flirtation: Monasticism and Evangelicals
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…
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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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The Death of Diversity
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…
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First Presbyterian Church Launches Emergent Worship for Young Adults
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…
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“Anabaptism and the Emerging Church” Andrew Jones
Tall Skinny Kiwi (Andrew Jones): Anabaptism and the Emerging Church Anabaptists and the emerging church. Horse and carriage? Chicken and egg? Chalk and cheese? It has been suggested by some (Don Carson, Scot McKnight) that the emerging church in USA gravitates towards and resembles the early Anabaptist movement. I have mentioned this before. I generally…