Check out this interview of Ryan Bolger at Allelon by Alan Roxburgh on Missional and Emerging Church. Bolger is assistant professor of Church in contemporary culture at Fuller Seminary and co-author of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. It’s about thrity minutes long but very helpful in sorting out several issues surrounding these differing movements.
Hi Adam,
Just wated to drop a note to see how you are doing. I hope all is well. You coming down to boise anytime soon?
Grace
Mark
Thank you for the link to the Bolger interview. It clarified concepts and distinctions for me in a way nothing else has. I now feel like I get what emerging/emergent is about, and how it relates to current denominational efforts toward being missional. I particularly appreciate that the interview wasn’t clouded by what I would call, for lack of a better phrase, the “liberal/conservative polarity angst”.
I’m glad you liked it, Mark. I think it is about the most lucid and clarifying discussion I have come across.
The best single presentation of these issues I’ve seen anywhere. Non-pretentious, well researched, clear. Thanks so much for pointing to it here. I’ve linked to it on the blog I tend for emerging folk in the United Methodist Church (http://emergingumc.blogspot.com)– and have given y’all credit for pointing me there.
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
Director of Worship Resources
The General Board of Discipleship of
The United Methodist Church
http://www.umcworship.org