loyal radicals…
Growing up at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church fostered a meaningful personal relationship with Christ, but it was only when I went to Fuller seminary that I began to understand what being Presbyterian meant. For my Fuller years I was active at a small multi-ethnic Presbyterian church that was going through a process of Appreciative Inquiry. In the fall of '06 I was ordained to working in campus ministry and my first book was published. When I came across Emergent four years ago I was overjoyed to connect with other people asking similar questions, and keep returning to Emergent for more conversations. That’s some of presbymergent me – thank you for asking.
This coming week presbymergent friends will be tossing out several hundred of these 5” mini flyers into the multitude of Presbyterians coming to the 218th General Assembly. Our main goal for participating in GA is to help other Presbyterian organizations, leaders, and members know that we exist. The secondary goal is to help network people [...]
Presbyteries & presbymergent
Though on the longer side, this episode is rich with hope for possibilities of our church structures, and ourselves, flourishing in the midst of chaos.
Between recording the opening context essay of the episode and now posting this episode (…please pray for me that future episodes take less time to complete…) the post [...]
Announcing the presbymergent podcast!
As a one-year of presbymergent.org anniversary gift, I am overjoyed to share the launch of this new resource for the Church. Details on how to subscribe to the podcast feed can be found on the brand new Podcast page. Below is more of the story behind the creation of this [...]
Mark Brantley-Gearhart recently posted this comment in the discussion about Clerks of Session. It’s a great start for beginning a conversation about Session committees:
“Last night our Session did something different. Instead of the annual assignment of committee chairpersons, we talked about options to committees. With the exception of the Nominating Committee (which is mandated [...]
The events page on presbymergent.org has been updated with lots of information on where presbymergents are going throughout the coming winter and spring months. The biggest national gathering of presbymergents, however, will be taking place this summer at Montreat during the Church Unbound conference just after GA.
What is taking place in events, until this [...]
In the recent past two folks in the presbymergent conversation have been news makers. Troy Bronsink has been named the #6 least-influential person in Atlanta and Bruce Reyes-Chow has announced his intentions of running for Moderator of the 218 General Assembly.
For more on Troy’s news - here is his blog, the online article, [...]
For all those who participated in a presbymergent party this summer, it was great to meet you and hear your stories. Given all the presbymergent interest at this summer’s events, there is more planned for this coming year. Fun!
As we enter into fall, the events page has been updated with details on forthcoming [...]
An Emergent friend, Spencer Burke, wants everyone in the presbymergent network to consider attending a learning party he’s hosting in the Bahamas, less than 90 days from now.
If you are planning on being there, please leave a comment so that presbymergents can locate each other while meeting on tropical beaches, umm, I mean, conference [...]
(for more infomation on presbymergent parties, check out the events page)
Meeting in an ‘old’ presbymergent church with silvery walls, “The Spiritual Ecology Project: A day of conversation about the emerging church and God’s mission in our world” was a great day. It began with a classic Emergent Gathering breakfast, whole-wheat crepes and fresh fruit, [...]
