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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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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Recently the Emergent West Michigan cohort asked me to talk about racial reconciliation I’ve been encouraging folks to read the writings of Howard Thurman as a way to broaden their theological framework, a couple have followed through. Thurman was a man before his time. In 1944 Thurman left his position as dean at Howard University to co-found the first fully [...]
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Where is the EC going? Is it going anywhere? Is it going in the right direction? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
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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Rudy carraso recently asked this question on his blog. is the emerging church racist? his answer was no i want to add a qualifier to the question is the emerging church intentionally racist? my answer. no it is not intentionally racist but I think it is racist. by placing racial reconciliation and the evil [...]
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