Conformity….

I’ve seen the light go out in people’s eyes when they decide it’s safer to embrace a doctrine or a … More

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