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  • Alan Roxburgh Interview of Ryan Bolger on Missional and Emerging Church

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    Check out this interview of Ryan Bolger at Allelon by Alan Roxburgh on Missional and Emerging Church. Bolger is an assistant professor of Church in contemporary culture at Fuller Seminary and co-author of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. It's a little more than thirty minutes but very helpful in sorting out several…

  • National Conversation on the Emerging Church

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    The National Conversation on the Emerging Church (HT tallskinnykiwi) These three events are all connected with Zondervan's promotion of the new book Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches. I hope to attend the one in Austin, but we will see.

  • New Monasticism

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    Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight): New Monasticism There is a movement underway, in some places quite significant and in others not yet significant, but it seems to be growing. It can threaten, it can transform, and it can provoke. It is called “new monasticism.” I’m wondering if you are encountering it or encountering Christians who are…

  • Deconstructive Theology and the Emergent Church

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    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…

  • Young Pietists: Emerging in the Evangelical Covenant Church

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    TallSkinnyKiwi (Andrew Jones): Young Pietists: Emerging in the Evangelical Covenant Church Young Pietists is the name given to the emerging leaders in the Evangelical Covenant Church. They put out a magazine called The Narthex. But Pietists is also the name given to the renewal movement after the reformation that added some much needed spiritual life…

  • Old Church Model ‘Killing the West’

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    Christian Post: Old Church Model 'Killing the West' Culture has rejected traditional institutions so the church should change, not complain about it, according to a prominent theologian and futurist. Leonard Sweet, considered one of the church's most provocative thinkers, said the old model of church is "killing the West," at a conference at Baylor University's…

  • Voice of ‘sage’ inspires, unsettles (Brian McLaren)

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    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…

  • Presbymergent

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    A new Presbyterian/Emergent website has sprung into existence courtesy of Adam Walker Cleveland and others: Presbymergent. (Frankly, I would have chosen the name "Emergyterians" but I digress.) Here is how the site is described: Presbymergent is the online community for those who live in both the Presbyterian and Emergent/emerging church worlds and want to try…

  • “From someone who actually visited emerging churches” Dan Kimball

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    Vintage Faith blog: From someone who actually visited emerging churches In the continuing sadness and frustration about what I would call urban legends and over-generalizations being made about "the emerging church" and their theological beliefs, I was reading a new book by Bob Whitesel that has something of merit to repeat here. The book is…

  • KC Emergent Cohort Conversation

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    For those of you in the Kansas City area, the Kansas City Emergent Cohort is getting together tonight at the Wesport Flea Market in Westport (Home of the best-tasting and most artery-clogging hamburgers in the metro.) I have been invited to offer some reflections about economics in the Emerging conversation. I have given my little…