So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious.
First, there is the knee jerk reaction and immediate assumption by some of us Christians that if people are [...]
Well I don’t know how I represented the emerging/post-emergent/missional world view at the Baker forum two weeks ago. It was fun to hear the thoughts of the other participants all of whom I know; including my friend Steve Argue, who argued articulately for the need of the church to look again at how we practice what we preach. A colleague [...]
I came across this recent in the The Christian Century. The description of Jacob’s web does not seem to fit the usual prescription of an emergent church. Which is supposed to be small and democratically led. (flat leadership model)
This neighborhood is also home to a thriving church called Jacobs Well, which attracts about 1,000 people [...]
I got the latest Emergent/C (which is the newsletter/communication piece of Emergent Village) today and it included this quote.
We in Emergent Village are poised for an important year in 2007. A pivotal year, I’d say. Lots of people are watching—some with high hopes that EV might be a part of a re-birth of [...]
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Alex Mcmanus of Mosaic Church in LA has an interesting observation and reflection on the emerging church and Mosaic’s link to things emerging into the mystic… » Is Mosaic a part of the Emerging Church?
Here’s the interesting observation by someone outside the church
Recently a Los Angeles Times reporter was given the assignment to write an [...]
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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 [...]
There is a growing conversation happening about diversity or the lack of diversity in the emerging church conversation. Thankfully there are several people of color responding, and sharing their thoughts. So here are snippets from some of the conversations.
Over at the Ooze in a conversation about Seeking diversity in Emergent sacred narrative writes
"Maybe we study African Christianity and South American [...]
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This is an exciting addition of another person of color to the emerging church conversation. Check it out.
Musings of an Emergent Postmodern Negro
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A new friend Steve sent me this from the emergent-us blog. He an I have had several conversation about the lack of diversity in emergent. After reading this and looking at the comments on the blog here’s bullets of my response
When it comes to diversity and the emergent conversation I have to say we have a long way [...]
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jen lemen has another great post on her blog that relates to the conversation about how emergent conversation relates to women and people of color. She is suggesting correctly that there needs to be more than just inclusion of women (and I add people of color) in the conversation. We need to move beyond inclusion [...]
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