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Neal Locke is a former high school English teacher, a current seminary student, and a husband, father, folk singer-songwriter, open source fanatic, wikipedian, presbymergent, liber(al)tarian who drinks monastic beer and blogs at www.mrlocke.net
Legend has it that one afternoon on November 22nd, Presbymergent founder and about-to-be-ordained-minister Adam Walker Cleaveland was trying to come up with a statement of faith for his Ordination service. So he did the usual thing any 20-something uber geek would do…he asked his twitter friends how long a statement of faith should be?
After many [...]
For anyone in the New York, New Jersey, Philly area, Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw are finishing out their “Jesus For President” tour at Broadstreet Ministry (one of our presbymergent friends!) in Philadelphia this Saturday night July 26th. The event is free and open to anyone. Doors open at 5pm, a community dinner is at [...]
Several months ago, we tossed out a post asking our presbymergent community to come up with some questions for the candidates for Moderator of the General Assembly. Here are your questions, in poll-style — vote for your favorites, and we’ll present the top five to the candidates.
Hint: You can stuff the ballot box [...]
Rhett Smith has an excellent post on his blog today entitled What Is the Millennial Generation About? He summarizes some key points of an interview with the authors of a recent book on the Millennial Generation, and then offers some analysis of how these trends might pertain to the PC(USA). He makes some good [...]
A friend passed on this link from Salon ,and I just couldn’t help but smile in recognition as I read about the struggles that aging Buddhist teachers are facing to keep their practices relevant in a changing culture…
But we’re a small group, and off and on we wonder what the American Buddhist future will look [...]
Two months ago, I asked a question of the Emerging Church conversation: Are we writing the things we’re writing because we want to sell books, or are we writing the things we’re writing because we want to change the world? And if our bottom line really isn’t book revenues, then why not make copies of [...]
With General Assembly approaching, and three candidates for Moderator already declared, a few of the presbymergent editors have been tossing around the idea of coming up with a list of questions we’d like to ask the candidates. This seems to be a time-honored tradition among groups as diverse as the Presbyterian Outlook, the Layman, [...]
I love my post-modern culture. I think I understand it well-enough, and I certainly embrace (and embody) it most of the time. But are there ever times when my “emerging faith” calls me to cry out against the times? This time of year, one such case stands out pretty clearly: Consumerism.
If the industrial [...]
Yeah, mostly I’ve always wanted to say those words. When I was a teenager, my sole life-ambition was to graduate from high school, move to Nashville, and become a studio musician.
So I’m finally here (I did bring my guitar!), but it’s for the National Presbyterian Evangelism Conference. The convention is at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, [...]
As I struggle to stay awake at the end of an incredible day, here are some of the highlights from day two of the PGF Conference:
Early morning prayer (led by our own Karen Sloan) from the Book of Common Worship in a very “alt. worshippy” decorated prayer room.
Breakout session with Chris Seay — wrestling with [...]
