Bill Kinnon had a wonderful post on a gathering of emerging church authors. One of the questions I would have asked of the assembled big guns is "How is this worked out in your own lives? Tell us about your involvement in local Christian community?" My fear is that only Dr. Morse and Dan Kimball [...]
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Cultivate Gathering
Cultivate Gathering is coming to a Hamilton near you on May 16, 2009. Cultivate is for anyone who is interested in missional church, and is happening because of numerous conversations between different people, organizations, networks and churches in Canada that long to see new forms of church thrive and relational networking happen. We are tired [...]
Missional Tribe Launched
In amidst the activity that has been my life lately, several friends have done an excellent job and launched Missional Tribe, which is a hybrid social networking site and portal for those engaged in the discussion and praxis of the missional church around the world. The implementation of the technology that powers the site is [...]
Emerging Events
There are a couple of event based Twitter accounts I follow and I was thinking that someone needed to do the same for events those of us in the emerging church might find helpful to know about. So instead of waiting for the lazyweb to create on, I decided to create on at twitter.com/emergingevents. If [...]
A Year Under the Perfect Sun
Jason & Brooke Evans along with the rest of the Ecclesia Collective have published a zine. As a way to say “thank you” to everyone that has been a part of the Ecclesia Collective, we have created our first annual ‘zine! Through words and images A Year Under The Perfect Sun documents the activities of [...]
The Dying Last Gasp
Iggy has a good post on Tony Jone’s recent comments about gay marriage and relationships in the church and what that doesn’t mean for the emerging church. I would expand on his post a bit and continue to beat the drum that the emerging church is a whole lot larger than Tony’s statements (or Brian’s [...]
The Emerging Church as a Matrix of Networks.
Some of you may find this Fuller Theology Journal article interesting . It is a mistake to think of “the emerging church” as a cohesive movement with authorized spokespersons. It is more of a matrix of networks attracting a range of like-minded travelers. It has been described as a conversation in which countless numbers participate [...]
The sin of consumerism and nationalism
Rick Bennett has an excellent post on consumerism and nationalism in the church The title, which intrigues me greatly is Between Two God’s: Christianity and the Challenges of Consumerism. Rodney, like myself and a growing number of individuals, sees Consumerism as a religion, competing with Christianity for the souls of church goers. I have grown [...]
