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Category: Emergent Church
An Emergent Witness for Friends?
But there is also something else happening. A growing number of Americans (nearly a third, according to one Gallop poll) … More
An Emergent Witness for Friends…..
1. As we often proclaim, Friends are, for the most part, non-creedal and non-hierarchical. When we are at our best … More
It Moves Beyond….
I like to think of the Great Emergence as reported in the book by Phyllis Tickle as “Post-Religion”. It moves … More
The Times, They Are A-Changin….
This “new” Christianity is sick of culture wars, political agendas, hypocrisy and legalistic doctrines. They prefer inclusion over restriction, dialogue … More
Living The Message….
Emergent congregations are especially well equipped to live creatively in the newly post-Western Christianity. They are careful not to confuse … More
The History of the Church….
What matters to those who look to history for important lessons is that something was lost in the fourth century … More
Changing From Within….
Let me start this post by bringing back some words from a recent post about emergents. The emergent movement is … More
Common Complaints About Emergents…..
I want to close out this series of posts with some unfounded complaints about the emergent movement. This list is … More
Emergent Village Values & Practices….
This post will be about the commitments of the emergent church as outlined in the book The New Christians: Dispatches … More
Humble Emergents vs. Absolutists….
Lets continue on with some more quotes from the book by Tony Jones entitled The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent … More
Skiing The Slippery Slope
Anyone who has read much of this blog knows how I feel about the slippery slope. I believe that the … More
Theology is Temporary…
Continuing with my study of theology as discussed in the book by Tony Jones entitled The New Christians: Dispatches from the … More
Emergent Church… Good Theology … Bad Theology
From Tony Jones in his book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier: Good theology begets beautiful Christianity. And … More
The Emergent Church….. They Love Everyone….
I am going to spend the next few posts giving you some more info about the emergent church movement now … More
Not to Confuse Jesus With the Packaging….
I want to spend this post telling you a little more about today’s emergent churches. No, this is not just … More
Those Non-Western Christians…
Anyone who has read much of this blog knows that I take the creeds of the Christian church to have … More
Don’t Embarrass God….
Since this is the first post here in 2013 I pray we all make a new years resolution to not … More
Institutional Purity…..
The primary reason there are 39,000+ Christian denominations is that each are trying to maintain “purity” of beliefs. Here is … More
The Second Great Rummage Sale — The Great Schism
The Great Schism is basically when the Christian church split in the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. This … More
A Giant Rummage Sale…
Anyone who has visited this blog in the recent past know that I am pinning great hope on the “emergent” … More
On Ward Christian Soldier????
Today Christian families are often also military families but at the beginnings of our religion that was definitely not the … More
Religionless Christianity???
Toward the end of his life, while in a Nazi prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a well known Lutheran theologian, wrote some … More
And Its All Small Stuff…..
In 1997 Richard Carlson wrote a very popular book entitled Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff…. and it’s all small stuff. In … More
A New/Old Kind of Christianity
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith by Brian D. McLaren: We’re following the … More
The Kingdom of God…..
Of course all Christians recognize the phrase the kingdom of God from the Lord’s prayer. But the interpretation of that … More
Own Worst Enemies…
I am going to use a quote from one of my favorite authors and that is Philip Gulley from his … More
The Church Is Not a Democracy….
We in the U.S. know that one of the primary foundations of our democracy is freedom of speech. That is … More
Rummage Sales
Before I get into the “details” I wanted to throw out another unique way of looking at church history. Here … More
History of the Church — More Details …
I realize that due to trying to keep the last post brief I did not fully explain the three ages … More