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I'm a recent graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, member of The Open Door, who's working on planting another church in Pittsburgh.

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Christendom and “The Presbyterian Establishment”

Two days ago, I opened an envelope from Louisville to find a copy of a new occasional paper from the Office of Theology and Worship: William Weston’s Rebuilding the Presbyterian Establishment. I cringed. Rebuilding the Presbyterian Establishment? So I began to read, and my fears were confirmed. “It is time to rebuild the church’s Establishment,” [...]

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Submissive Subversive Service to the Church

The church I’m currently interning with, The Open Door, is entering into a new phase in its life. In the coming weeks BJ will be leading us through a series considering what it means to be “covenant partners” with God, with one another, and with the world around us. Another side of that [...]

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presbymergents in the Presbyterian Outlook

The most recent issue of the Presbyterian Outlook (password only required to leave comments on articles) is filled with articles by and about presbymergent personalities:

Blogging as a Spiritual Discipline and The Case for Facebook by Bruce Reyes-Chow
Blogging 101 by Adam Walker Cleaveland
Your Own Personal Gutenberg by Neal Locke and Shawn Coons
An article by Leslie Scanlon [...]

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“Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church”

Last April, in a string of comments on Presbymergent, some other people and I brainstormed the possibility of a special gathering for “Presbymergents” at Pittsburgh Seminary.  In just three weeks, that idea will come to fruition as . . .
Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church
October 12th & 13th, 2007, featuring John Franke, Karen Sloan, [...]

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