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Presbymergent Stats and Mainline Emergent/s Bloggers

January 30, 2007 By 2 Comments

Just thought we’d give you a little update. Since the site has been up (only 4 days now), we now have 22 Contributors, 40 people who have subscribed to our RSS feed (7 to the comments), and had 150 hits just in the past 24 hrs. I’d say we’re doing pretty good. If you’d like to see who’s talking about us, check out Technorati or Google Blog Search. Thanks for spreading the word everyone!

Also, the Mainline Emergent/s event kicks off this afternoon – in case you didn’t read the article about Brian McLaren and the conference in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, you can download the PDF here (saves you from having to register with their site). There are going to be a fair amount of Presbymergents there and some may even be live-blogging the event. We will keep a list here. So if you are at the event, please leave a comment with your URL and we will get it posted. Hope everyone who is here in Atlanta can forgive us for the cold weather and enjoy the event!

Presbymergent Bloggers at Mainline Emergent/s:

Filed Under: Blogging, Events, Presbymergent

Feel Free to Begin Submitting Content

January 28, 2007 By 2 Comments

We’ve decided to have the Default Status for new users to this site set as Contributor. This means that when you Register for this site, you will then be able to login and write posts and begin to contribute your original content to this site.

After we meet with some presbymergents at the Mainline Emergent/s event at Columbia Theological Seminary, and after we talk with some more people about this site, there will be a group of people selected to be Editors for this site. It will be their job to login at least once a week and review content that people have submitted to be posted. They will then publish the content. Once we decide on appropriate guidelines for submitting content to Presbymergent.org, we will post that. Until then – feel free to begin submitting content, posts, discussion topics to the site.

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Content and Site Design for Presbymergent

January 26, 2007 By 5 Comments

Since this site will hopefully become a community effort, I’d like to open up the design process to anyone who might be interested. If you have any ideas for content that you think should be included on this site, please let me know.

Also, I’d like to see Presbymergent have a unique design as well. Presbymergent.org is powered by WordPress 2.1, so we need a Valid XHTML/CSS WordPress theme to be designed for our site. It must incorporate the PCUSA logo/seal (though you don’t have to keep it the same colors) and also should portray some organic, creative elements. If you are interested in working on a design, or if you are interested in helping to code the site, contact Adam Walker Cleaveland.

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Presbymergent Bloggers & Churches

January 26, 2007 By 12 Comments

Are you Presbyterian? Are you “emergent” (whatever that means…)? Are you a blogger? Let us know and we will add your blog to the list of Presbymergent Bloggers.

We are also collecting a list of churches that are Presbyterian (USA) and seeking to engage an emerging, postmodern culture in their ministry. We know of some (Wicker Park Grace, The Portico) but we’d like to create a larger list so that pastors and leaders from these churches could network and support one another.

So please send us your links so we can begin to grow the resources here at presbymergent.

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Welcome to Presbymergent.org!

January 26, 2007 By 4 Comments

Welcome to presbymergent.org, the online community for those involved in the Presbyterian (USA) church and in the Emergent conversation. Many would agree that while the Emergent conversation may have first begun among evangelicals, the conversation is moving into the Mainline/Traditional church world as well. Next week, Columbia Theological Seminary will host the Mainline Emergent/s event, a conversation about Theology, Practice and Hope.

It is our hope that this website will serve as a portal for all who are interested in connecting with Presbyterian and emerging pastors, leaders and lay people who are interested in and wrestling with how to live in and work in a “presbymergent” world. We hope that people will share their stories and thoughts.

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