loyal radicals…
Yesterday, San Francisco Presbytery endorsed Bruce Reyes-Chow, a member of our Presbymergent community, as a candidate for moderator of the PC(USA). Bruce is pastor of Mission Bay Community Church, a power blogger, an advocate of all things Web 2.0, and best of all a candidate for moderator who is under the age of 40!
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Saturday at a Leadership Summit sponsored by some churches in our Presbytery that included about 90 elders and pastors I did two presentations on the emergent church. I had about 20 -25 people in each 1-1/2 hour long presentation.
It went quite well, and I heard a lot of positive feedback. Many folks already had some [...]
Michael Kruse and I have been engaging in a bit of dialogue lately surrounding the emergent conversation and progressive politics. Michael has been involved in the emergent conversation for many years but has become increasingly disenfranchised with the growing connection he sees between the emergent movement and progressive politics. Michael has written [...]
I recently was asked to do a presentation/seminar on the emerging church for an event sponsored by our presbytery coming up in late October.
We don’t currently have any emerging type churches in our presbytery, and while I’ve obviously invested myself personally in the emergent movement, the reality is that the church I serve is far [...]
My wife and I recently paid a visit to Solomon’s Porch, an emergent congregation in the Minneapolis area. As most emergent’s know, a lot of the activity in this gathering happens ‘in the round.’ Two stools and a set of microphones are placed in the middle of the room. Rows of [...]
This last weekend I was on vacation. My wife and I took a little road trip to visit a friend in Minneapolis, and we also made a visit to Solomon’s Porch. You can read a review of my experience here. I have more to say than I could capture in just this one blog post, [...]
When our kids come to be confirmed in the church they provide a sense of hope for the future of our church. But for many of our congregations this may in fact be the only source of hope! Should it be that way?
Typically, for growth and stability most of our established mainline churches [...]
In the interest of starting the conversation as suggested by Neal, I’ll throw in my two cents worth about what I’ve read so far in “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope.” Honestly, I was under-whelmed by Part 1 (People of Hope.) However, I have found Part 2 (Communities of Hope) to be a [...]
My friend Bill writes: “We really must emerge - from the darkness of institutionalism and into the light of communion.”
As far as I can tell the primary focus of the emergent conversation in our denomination seems to currently be about what is happening at a congregational level, especially as it might relate to forming [...]
There is some question as to what emergent is exactly. Some associate it as a movement of folks within evangelicalism. Others associate it with progressive Christianity. I want to provide a few of my observations and thoughts to hopefully get some discussion going about where we might think about placing this movement and [...]
