browsing the ooze blog I cam e across a link to this site which has compiled an extensive list of online definitions of the emerging church
i wonder as i wander: what is the emerging/missional/monastic/ multicultural/postmodern church anyway?.
Recently i discovered a voice in the emergent conversation that I was not aware of, melvin bray.
His bio reads
I am a professional speaker and aspiring author. I am contributing the chapter “Reading the Prophets for Justice: How can we read the prophets to learn justice?” to An Emergent Manifesto of Justice [Baker Publishing: Emersion Books, [...]
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emergent, new monastic, emerging, organic, ancient future, missional church. I haven’t been completely comfortable with any of these current labels for evolving ways of being the church. As I have been re-imagining what it means to be a follower of Jesus in my current cultural context (urban,racially and socio-economically diverse) I’ve moved beyond emergent but had not [...]
It may be self serving but I am encouraged when I see others speaking out for a post emergent future for the emerging church. Here is a snippet of a review from a talk given by Jason Clark titled The Emerging Church: Another Dead-End or the Hope of the Church?
First, it must become a deeper church [...]
I just noticed that Slice of Laodicea: is on the rampage again wiith their/his particular perspective on Christianity, recently he has attacked Christians doing yoga, Rob Bell, Willow Creek, and now all things emergenct in a critique of Anne Lamott for endorsing a book my Mary Willaimson. He included a link in his post to this blog as evidence. [...]
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In my recent web browsing of things emergent. I came across some posts that suggest that my post emergent perspective is not a fluke.
Jaimie Smith of Generous Orthodoxy ThinkTank: Emergent Reflections Post-Divergent points out several distinctions he recently experienced at an emergent event in Geneva between the US EC and the expression of emergence in Europe [...]
Kruse Kronicle: writes an interesting critique of the emergent conversation with regard to the Da Vinci Code and treatment of story in general. Here’s a quote
Yet for Emergent types, of all people, to flippantly dismiss concerns about events like The Da Vinci Code as “just stories” seems just a little inconsistent and a little too [...]
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Here is a link to a video of the CBS news piece about the emergent church including a brief piece with McLaren
see here
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Thanks to Elizabeth Potter for a heads up on this
MCLAREN ON CBS EVENING NEWS. Emergent-church leader and The Secret Message of Jesus (W Publishing/Nelson) author Brian McLaren will be featured in a series on faith this week on CBS Evening News. The Emergent story is on Thursday night.
And there’ll be an article in the Wall Street Journal on [...]
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