Tag: emerging church
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“Emerging and Orthodoxy” Scot McKnight
For those of you interested in the Emerging Church Conversation and Christian orthodoxy, Scot McKnight is beginning a series this week that deals with just those issues called Emerging and Orthodoxy. The Emergent Conversation is a very diverse one. I find I am a kindred spirit with many aspects of it. One departure point for…
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I’m Number 37 of 50.
I keep meaning to report on a post I found a few days ago by Bryan Murley. Bryan is a student doing doctoral work on the Emerging Church. Part of his work will include an analysis of the top fifty most influential blogs. I scrolled down the list and, lo and behold, there was yours…
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New Faithful Practice Away From Churches
New Faithful Practice Away From Churches is an article posted and CBS Channel 2 in Chicago about the Emerging Church. Some estimates say there are 20 million of these new faithful in the U.S. alone — that's more than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Mormons put together. CBS 2's Antonio Mora investigates whether it is the…
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Emergent Conversation and the Da Vinci Code: Do Stories Matter?
The central theme of the Emergent Conversation is that we are moving from a modern to a postmodern world. An important part of this shift is moving away from foundationalism to narratives. The days of identifying foundational principles and building a belief system are over. We must look to the stories within communities if we…
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Name that café (Wicker Park Grace)
Name that café is a story on the front page of the Chicago Journal about a café being run by Wicker Park Grace, a PCUSA emergent fellowship pastored by Nanette Sawyer. (Although the article does not mention the PCUSA thing.) Sawyer, who is pastor of Wicker Park Grace, a faith-based group that uses space at…
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Emerjeans
I got a kick out of Emerjeans by Andrew Jones about the latest in emerging church fashion.
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Disconnect: Mainliners and Evangelicals in “Emergent” Conversation
I have been around the emergent conversation for about eight years now. In the first few years, my contact was mainly isolated to an emergent group (Jacob's Well) meeting in our church building. Over the last four years, I have read more widely, attended an Emergent YM conference, hung out at Glorieta, NM, and involved…
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“Engage Economy to Voice Your Values”: An Observation about the Emergent Conversation
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,…
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Emergent PCUSA Church in the News
The Portico in Charlotte, NC, an emergent Presbyterian Church (USA), is featured in an article called Postmodern Christianity at creativeloafing.com. The article is about emerging churches in Charlotte, and the part about Portico is toward the end. Check it out.
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The Future or Fad? A Look at the Emerging Church Movement
The Future or Fad? A Look at the Emerging Church Movement is an article by Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago. The article is in an Evangelical Covenant Church denominational publication called The Covenant Companion. (Go to the February 2006, edition and click on the link…