loyal radicals…
So now an emergent Presbyterian is the moderator of the General Assembly. We can say, yay Bruce, and marvel that he now has his very own page on Wikipedia.
After we get done celebrating, though, we have to ask ourselves: what does this mean for Presbymergent? In what ways will this impact the conversations [...]
Once again, I’ll dip into the presbymergent brain trust with a question about the changing dynamics within my own congregation.
I love my “wee kirk,” which when I arrived back in 2003 was a group of about 17 stalwarts, the last folks standing in a suburban congregation that began it’s archetypal mainline deathspiral back in the [...]
A question for the Presbymergent cognoscienti:
How and to what extent does your congregation utilize new media as an implement for evangelism?
I know that we blog, and that we’re open to integrating media into new forms of worship. This is good. But that we have connectivity within our respective fellowships doesn’t speak to how [...]
Many Presby-types may recently have gotten a missive in the mail from the Form of Government Task Force, which was charged by the 217th General Assembly with the considerable task of re-writing and restructuring our somewhat convoluted constitution. Well, they’ve completed their draft re-write of the Form of Government, which is now available for [...]
As I’ve read through some of the posting here at presbymergent, one thread that seems to weave into much of the discussion is the concern that we’re not adequately preparing our candidates for ministry to engage with a more dynamic church milieu. We’re preparing them for the church that was, and not the church [...]
..if the Emergents are a movement, what are the songs to which they march?
