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Andrew Jones makes me feel really old

Andrew looks back a decade at some of the original theological bloggers and finds out what we are up to.  It’s funny to think I am indirectly responsible for three of the people on that list.

Turning 10

Ten years ago today I published my first post on this site.  I wasn’t sure if this blogging thing was going to last but since then I have posted more then 11,000 times to the site and the traffic has grown quite a bit.  There hasn’t been many changes to the site.  It was first [...]

Fringe Expressions

Andrew Jones has launched a major new project called Fringe Expressions.  As he calls it. We are going to partner with leading mission organizations and denominations by helping them start 50 new church/mission structures around the world that will act as role models for church planting in the toughest parts of the world. As well [...]

Thanks!

Andrew Jones has some nice things to say about my blog which I appreciate.  Back when I started this blog, there was Rudy Carassco, Andrew, AKMA, and myself blogging about theology and faith issues.  I’ve been doing this for so long, I recently had to install the Touch of Grey hair coloring plugin for my [...]

Why I am still a friend of Emergent (even if we don’t talk that much anymore)

I posted about Andrew Jones’ decision on the weekend and I can respect what he is doing as he has been a person of his convictions and one has to do what one has to do. He makes a pretty good case for leaving. Also over is any official relationship I have left with one [...]

Goodbye to Emergent Village?

Andrew Jones wrote this today on his blog Also over is any official relationship I have left with one of those emerging church groups called Emergent Village. EV is a hard group to leave because its a flat structured organization and there is no one to inform that you are de-friending yourself, or getting de-friended, [...]

Laid off

Andrew Jones was laid off by Church Mission Society today which is a difficult blow at anytime but especially during this time of global economic duress. Anyway. Its a hard thing to receive a redundancy letter, despite how nice your employer has been about it. Its like getting dumped by a girlfriend. Its a blow [...]

Tall Skinny Wish List

Andrew Jones is blogging about what he needs for his pilgrimage around Europe in a 4×4 Overlander.  A really good 24 volt fridge so we can keep Abigail’s insulin cold. We were given an old one but the doctors told us it was too risky for our 12 month’s supply of insulin. 2 big windows [...]

Tall Skinny Bailout

Andrew Jones is blogging on the debt dependent church.  Here are some of the gems from the post I have seen a number of Seminary graduates come overseas to hang with us and to potentially find work in the "emerging church". After a short time, they have gone back to USA disappointed that there are [...]

10 Years of Next-Wave

Stephen Shields has an excellent look back at the emerging church in the current edition of Next-Wave.  Some of the interviews that made up the article can be found here and here.

Emerging? Have we even started?

On June 14th, Andrew Jones had an interesting post on his weblog. He asked the question “what happens when those of us in the emerging church stop emerging”. Interesting question as about the same time I interviewed Rudy Carrasco and he said this We are pretty close to enshrining our own orthodoxies, and we are [...]